I am going to transistion from HTMLArea to TinyMCE once we upgrade to 4.7.  And I will be moving to the Filemanager module to manage public vs private uploads. However, in the mean time, I the images the folk in the office associate with news items is embedded in the form "image/view/nid", which is amazingly unreliable.

So what can I do?  Ah ha, I can hack up the UploadImage plugin in the htmlarea module (modules/htmlarea/plugins/UploadImage/popups/insert_image.php) to access the filename and use that instead of "image/view/nid".  Ah the wonders of open source.