Mediagazer: Nico Pitney returning to Huffington Post (Erik Wemple)

11:45 AM ET, February 1, 2013

Top News:

Washington Post considers relocating its headquarters — Washington Post staffers received this memo this morning: — From: Katharine Weymouth — Reply-To: — I wanted to let everyone know that we are actively exploring relocating our headquarters. — This building has given us so much and has watched history unfold.

Discussion: FishbowlDC

Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:

Washington Post Co. explores the sale of its downtown headquarters — Executives from The Washington Post Co. are considering relocating the company from its 63-year-old headquarters in downtown Washington, exploring the sale of the building that saw the Post evolve into one of the country's top newspapers.

Discussion: Poynter and mediabistro.com

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Ed Koch's grave marker is inscribed with journalist Daniel Pearl's last words — Former New York City mayor Ed Koch died Friday morning at the age of 88. He plans to be buried in Manhattan, the three-term mayor said in 2008. His headstone and a memorial bench, placed at Trinity Church Cemetery in 2009 …

Discussion: The Wrap, Gawker, Capital New York, New York Magazine, bigstory.ap.org, Mediaite, The Awl, Speakeasy, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Globe and Mail, WebProNews and NY Daily News

Wall Street Journal:

Chinese Hackers Targeted Wall Street Journal Computers — The Wall Street Journal said Thursday that its computer systems had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers for the apparent purpose of monitoring the newspaper's China coverage. — The infiltration at the Journal …

Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News Also Got Hacked by China, Are Important

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Forbes and CNET

Dylan Byers / Politico:
China blacks out CNN International

Discussion: Twitchy

AFP:
China: claims of hacking NY Times ‘groundless’

Discussion: LNR Journalism and The Verge

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
News websites falling victim to online hackers

Discussion: AllThingsD, Naked Security, The Huffington Post and New York Times

Bloomberg:

Apple TV Said to Start Carrying HBO App Later This Year — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is in negotiations to start carrying Time Warner Inc. (TWX)'s HBO Go application on Apple TV by mid-2013, according to two people familiar with the plans. — Cable and satellite subscribers who pay for HBO …

Discussion: BGR, WebProNews, Business Insider, TUAW, Electronista, Softpedia News, GigaOM, Mashable!, CNET, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, App Advice, ParisLemon and 9to5Mac

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: HBO Go Is Coming to Apple TV. Why Isn't Everything Coming to Apple TV?

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

News Corp's Will Lewis takes senior New York role — Executive who handled fallout from phone-hacking scandal to become chief creative officer of demerged publishing company — Will Lewis, one of the executives running News Corporation's controversial management and standards committee dealing …

Discussion: Adweek and The Wrap

Guardian:

Ex-NoW reporter blasts News Corp for role in jailing of detective — Tim Wood, whose evidence contributed to case against April Casburn, says publisher should not have revealed its sources — The former News of the World reporter whose evidence contributed to the jailing …

Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
London Cop Gets 15 Months in News Corp. Tabloid Bribery Case

Discussion: Guardian, Telegraph and BBC

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

New Yorker to Launch New Online Verticals — The New Yorker, which has launched several new Web channels over the past year, is continuing its digital expansion with the launch of two new channels—one dedicated to Science and Technology and the other to Business—in the coming months.

Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:

Netflix CEO Says Won't Retreat From SEC on Facebook Posts — Netflix Inc. (NFLX) Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings said he will keep posting on Facebook as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission weighs whether to file a lawsuit over a disclosure he made on the social network.

Erik Maza / WWD:

W Magazine to Reduce Frequency — DOWN TWO: It appears even healthy ad pages aren't enough to keep magazines from reducing frequency. Condé Nast said Thursday it was scaling back W magazine, which had been performing relatively well among advertisers, to 10 issues a year from a monthly.

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

New Way to Deliver a Drama: All 13 Episodes in One Sitting — Television producers have turned bingeing, hoarding and overeating into successful prime-time shows for years, but now they are having to turn their attention to another example of overindulgence — TV watching.

Discussion: Deadline.com and Los Angeles Times

AdAge:

TV Networks Have No ‘Birth Right’ to Carriage: Time Warner Cable Boss — Subscribers See 'Too Many Networks I Don't Watch,' Britt Says — Time Warner Cable, the second- largest U.S. cable-TV operator, plans to keep scrutinizing and pressuring small cable channels even though they aren't the problem …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Home Media Magazine

Anthony Crupi / Adweek: Time Warner Cable Boss Glenn Britt Defends MSO's Pricey Sports Rights Deals

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

New Owner for Manhattan Newspaper Group — Publisher Purchases Group That Owns Titles Such as Our Town, West Side Spirit — Manhattan Newspaper Group, which counts the West Side Spirit, NYPress.com and Our Town among its collection of community publications, has been sold to Straus News …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Erik Wemple:

Nico Pitney returning to Huffington Post — Something didn't quite add up when Managing Editor Nico Pitney's departure from the Huffington Post was announced one year ago. Arianna Huffington, the news site's name partner, wrote an e-mail stating, in part: … Not a good enough explanation, Huffington!

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

CNET loses CES awards following Dish Hopper controversy; DVR named ‘Best In Show’ — The Hopper with Sling will be named co-winner of ‘Best In Show’ alongside official CNET choice the Razer Edge — The Consumer Electronics Association has issued a press release awarding the Dish Hopper …