Media

Staci Kramer over at paidContent has a story up about a big shake-up at the Huffington Post, with veteran publishing executive and VC Eric Hippeau replacing Betsy Morgan.

Politico.com, the Washington-based, online news organization created by former Washington Post staffers in 2006, will become profitable this year, says John Harris, editor and co-founder, in his interview with Beet.TV.

Michael Wolff, who has written a much talked about book about Rupert Murdoch and the rise of News Corp, sees MySpace in a downward spiral. 

Neal Shapiro is longtime network news producer and former president of NBC News, now President and CEO of WNET/Thirteen, the flagship PBS station in New York.

Matt Marshall, editor and CEO of VentureBeat, the authoritative technology and finance blog, is gearing up for his first year as co-producer of DEMO, the 20-year-old tech conference. 

TypePad, the popular blog platform owned by San Francisco-based SixApart, has become integrated with VOX, allowing TypePad users easier interface with Twitter, Facebook, and other social media.

SAN JOSE, Calif –  We read the today's annual report on global web traffic from Cisco and the dramatic rise in video file traffic on the Internet. Stacy Higginbotham over at GigaOm has an analysis, as does Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch. 

Warner Bros. online video destination TheWB.com has greenlit production on a Web original from former WB CEO Jordan Levin, who talked to Beet.TV earlier last week about the show.

Over the past year, the Wall Street Journal Digital Network has passed both MSN Money and AOL Money & Finance to become the second biggest site among the top 15 Financial News & Information Sites tracked by The Nielsen Company. Yahoo! remains the leader.

Consumption of news on mobile devices is on the rise.  At The New York Times, there were 60 million mobile views in April, nearly double the number from April 2008.

Reports out today on the downturn in online advertising for Q1 must not come as surprise to most publishers. 

ESPN is planning on merging its magazine and other online offerings, including Web videos from the the cable network, into a paid subscription site in August, Jon Fine reports in BusinessWeek

Despite the overall downturn in the advertising market, online studio Next New Networks is on a path to turn a profit this year states CEO Lance Podell during an interview at the company's headquarters in New York. 

Yesterday, at the much talked about iWantMedia panel on the future of the media, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton said that a third of his company's "posts are video centric."*

We stopped by the Business Insider daylong conference about the start-up scene yesterday at NYU.

Caught up with Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist immediately after his panel organized by iWantMedia today in Manhattan.  

Digital studio Next New Networks plans to introduce at least 12 to 15 new online networks and Web series from now until the end of the year, the company's co-founder Tim Shey told Beet.TV during an interview at Next New Networks' New York offices.

Great to be here at the iWantMedia event live at NYU.  Tune in now Jack Dorsey, Bonnie Fuller, Alan Murray, Craig Newmark, Nick Denton.  Moderated by Patrick Phillips.

REDMOND/NEW YORK — Bing, the new search engine released this week from Microsoft, has an agreement with Hulu to surface and play videos on its site.  The site was launched on Monday. Late yesterday we interviewed Stefan Weitz, Director of Bing in Redmond via video Skype.  He spoke about Bing's integration with Hulu and plans […]

Lauren Rich Fine, former longtime newspaper analyst for Merrill Lynch, and now research director for ContentNext Media, parent of paidContent, tells me that some newspapers will be able to charge for selected, premium content, but not many can charge for full, recurring subscriptions.