Mediagazer: A Peek Inside the Design Process at Bloomberg Businessweek (Adam Clark Estes/The Atlantic Wire)

9:50 AM ET, February 3, 2012

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Steve Myers / Poynter:

Arianna Huffington says traffic is up, announces HuffPost Streaming Network — A year after AOL bought The Huffington Post for $315 million, Arianna Huffington has released figures showing how the site has performed in the last year. Monthly unique visits were at 36.2 million in December …

Discussion: Beet.TV, AdAge, Guardian, Hollywood Reporter, Business Insider, Mixed Media, Media News, Digiday, WWD Media Headlines, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, FishbowlNY and Adweek

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Watch Out, TV: AOL and HuffPo Jump Into Live Video — AOL and The Huffington Post are readying a live video network that will have twelve hours of programming every weekday when it starts this summer. — The network, which is currently named The Huffington Post Streaming Network …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, AdAge and NewsLab

The Onion:
‘Huffington Post’ Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine

Discussion: Deadspin, GigaOM and Best Week Ever

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the next New York Times CEO — Talk about a plum job: chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. — The Times is one of the most respected brands on the planet. It is a pinnacle of the news trade. It generated revenues of $2.32 billion in 2011 …

Discussion: The Awl, Felix Salmon, Mother Jones and Capital New York

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
New York Times Co To Expand Health Coverage Online

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Times Company search for new C.E.O. still in ‘early stages,’ according to Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.

Discussion: MediaPost, Poynter, paidContent and Poynter

Malavika Sharma / Bloomberg:

Amazon Starts India Shopping Service as Internet Market Grows — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world's largest Internet retailer, started an online shopping service in India to profit from the world's second most populous nation as it waits for the country's retail regulations to loosen.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Reuters, BBC, Associated Press, The Next Web, MediaNama and BGR India, more at Techmeme »

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Yahoo steals NY Times' Virginia Heffernan — In its most high-profile move since announcing the expansion of its political coverage, Yahoo News has hired former New York Times columnist Virginia Heffernan as its National Correspondent. — Heffernan, who wrote The Medium column …

Discussion: MediaPost, Yahoo! News and The New York Observer

Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:

A Peek Inside the Design Process at Bloomberg Businessweek — The latest Bloomberg Businessweek cover — illustrating the unsexy topic of aviation mergers in perhaps the most sexy way possible — earned what's becoming familiar praise on Twitter and beyond for the magazine's design staff.

Discussion: Business Insider, FishbowlNY, The Atlantic Online, Gawker and copyranter

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

10 Questions with Chris Mohney, Editor-in-Chief of Tumblr's New Editorial Project — Yesterday, the New York Times broke news of blogging platform and social media network Tumblr's new editorial project. The project was characterized as something that will be “documenting the Tumblr service and marketing it to users.”

Discussion: Anthony De Rosa, Techland, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, NYConvergence.com and New York Times

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Max Clifford: press too cautious after phone hacking and Leveson inquiry — PR veteran says newspapers would not uncover stories such as the MPs' expenses scandal in the current climate — PR veteran Max Clifford has said the MPs' expenses scandal would not have been uncovered by a newspaper in the post phone-hacking climate.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

A Crowdfunded Approach To Setting E-Books Free — What do To Kill A Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time and Little House on the Prairie series have in common, besides being beloved? None of them are available legally as e-books. A new site aims to make these and other e-books available to the public …

Erik Wemple:

‘Marketplace’ feature is a complete fabrication — American Public Media's “Marketplace” has a silo where it stores all manner of compelling first-person narratives. It's called “My Life is True,” and it's essentially a series of stories “from people living on the edges of the economy.”

Discussion: Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM and This ain't Hell …

Steve Myers / Poynter:

NPPA president: Sacramento Bee photo manipulation a ‘betrayal’ — The Sacramento Bee has suspended an award-winning photographer for combining two photos of an egret eating a frog into one image, an ethical violation that Sean Elliot, president of the National Press Photographers Association, called a “betrayal.”

Discussion: Sacramento Bee, Washington Post and KXTV

Dan Frommer / ReadWriteWeb:

Hollywood Isn't Ruining DVD Rentals On Its Own: Netflix is Happy to Help — It's easy to slam Hollywood for not understanding how technology works, or for putting its legacy business models ahead of user experience. Especially when big media companies do things like restrict digital access to movies and then cry about piracy.

Lisa Alter / AllThingsD:

Silence of the Lambs: The Missing Voice of Authors in the SOPA Debate — The recent media frenzy surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act is perhaps most notable for the voice that is absent in the mainstream media debate: The voice of the individual creator of intellectual property.

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Mirror redundancies: Journalists call for Sly Bailey to go — Journalists on the Mirror titles and People this afternoon called on chief executive Sly Bailey to resign following the news that 75 journalists are to be made redundant across the titles. — Members of the British Association …

Discussion: Guardian and Press Gazette

Nils Pratley / Guardian:
Is Trinity Mirror boss Sly Bailey the UK's most overpaid chief executive?

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Reuters:

INSIGHT-Inside Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper clean-up operation — The centre of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper clean-up operation is an unimposing set of offices in a corner of the company's campus in Wapping, east London. — It is here that the scarred reputation and the future …