Mediagazer: A Crowdfunded Approach To Setting E-Books Free (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

10:30 AM ET, February 3, 2012

Top News:

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, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Mixed Media, Media News, Hollywood Reporter, Digiday, WWD Media Headlines, 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

NPR:

How Online Paywalls Are Changing Journalism … Read Clay Shirky's column “Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users” — Online media advocate Clay Shirky has long been a skeptic of newspaper paywalls. He now thinks 2012 could be the year that a critical mass of readers will be willing to pay for news online.

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.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: mobile networks took almost six years to tell customers

Discussion: The Next Web and Telegraph

Reuters: INSIGHT-Inside Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper clean-up operation

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 …

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

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 »

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, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, NYConvergence.com, Fast Company and New York Times

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

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.

Nils Pratley / Guardian:

Is Trinity Mirror boss Sly Bailey the UK's most overpaid chief executive? — Sly Bailey has pocketed £12.4m during her nine years at the helm - while the share price has plunged 87% — Who is the most overpaid chief executive of a UK quoted company?

Discussion: Jon Slattery