Mediagazer: How Pitchfork Visualizes Music on the Internet (Eliot Van Buskirk/Evolver.fm)

1:20 AM ET, February 25, 2013

Top News:

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

We Are All Huffington Post Now — Two years ago, the Huffington Post published a story called “What Time Does the Super Bowl Start?” which generated lots of clicks from regular Web-surfers, and eye-rolling from people like me. — The post was both effective — it showed up high on Google searches …

Discussion: The Wrap, @pkafka, @deanpraetorius and Los Angeles Times

David Boardman / The Seattle Times:

Digital subscriptions needed to support quality journalism — In mid-March, The Seattle Times will launch a new digital-subscription plan for users of Seattletimes.com. Print subscribers will continue to have unrestricted access. — It is a truism of American life that you get what you pay for.

Discussion: GeekWire

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

Michael Goldfarb Gleeful Provocateur at Intersection of Many Worlds — At 11:42 a.m. on Feb. 14, a conservative online magazine called The Washington Free Beacon posted a dispatch about a speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2007 in which it said he called the State Department “an adjunct to the Israeli foreign minister's office.”

Discussion: @nycsouthpaw, The Huffington Post, @jim_newell, Prof Chris Daly's Blog and Smartertimes.com

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Barnes & Noble Weighs Its Nook Losses — Even for a company with a lot of bad news lately, the bulletin from Barnes & Noble this month had an ominous feel. — Barnes & Noble, the nation's largest book chain, warned that when it reports fiscal 2013 third-quarter results on Thursday …

Discussion: CNET, The Verge and Engadget

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

The Magazine: now with full-article sharing, web subscriptions — When I launched The Magazine in October, I didn't know whether enough people would subscribe to keep it afloat. I didn't know whether most people would make fun of the idea, argue that articles on the internet should be free …

Discussion: @steverubel, @natdudley and @marcoarment, Thanks:@steverubel

Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm:

How Pitchfork Visualizes Music on the Internet — Welcome to part two of our condensed, super-digestible interview with RJ Bentler, vice president of video programming for the influential music tastemaker Pitchfork. The first part of this interview covers the interactive promise of internet-on-the-television.

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

Wikipedia to deliver articles via text messages in coming months — Wikipedia has been working on new ways to bring its 25 million articles to more users in developing markets, where smartphones and internet connectivity are still sporadic. The latest plan is let users request specific articles …

Discussion: The Inquisitr, TechnoBuffalo and Engadget

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Robert Gibbs Told Not To Acknowledge Drone Program Exists As White House Press Secretary — Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy — Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday that he was told not to “acknowledge” or “discuss” …

Discussion: The Verge

John Robinson / Media, disrupted:

Ethics in journalism: what really matters — Funny how isolated events come together. — Event #1: A week ago, my friend Buffy Andrews at the York Daily Record asked Twitter for thoughts on a colleague's ethical question. He was covering a story and a source — a Marine — gave him a hat or what he called a “cover.”

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

NASCAR blocks eyewitness video of Daytona crash, but YouTube reverses the takedown — A NASCAR race at the Daytona International Speedway today was disrupted by a harrowing crash that sent debris flying into the stands and left some fans injured. As CNN reports, shredded debris flew …

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

An eye on the Times-Picayune's numbers — Some questions about what executives say are positive circulation trends — We'll have a long story on the Times-Picayune next week, but Publisher Ricky Mathews and Editor Jim Amoss released some numbers in the last few weeks in order to tout …

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Split in two: How The Boston Globe, up for sale, is navigating its free/paid strategy — Sitting in his office last week, Brian McGrory, the new editor of The Boston Globe, described the relationship between the two websites — similarly named, often confused, one free, one paid — that his newspaper offers.