Plus: Parsing The New York Times’ paywall figures, a big nonprofit news merger in the Bay Area, and all the rest of this week’s news in media and tech.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: USA Today, courtroom tweeting, .tv island sinking
New USA Today publisher: “There is paid digital content in some areas in the future for us” http://tr.im/k89N »
The Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) names 10 worst countries to be a blogger http://tr.im/k6CO »
In Missoula, tweeting continues unabated in courtroom upstairs from where Twitter was banned http://tr.im/k8gc »
Every journalist’s favorite toy, the Flip cam, now sports an HD model that takes AA batteries. Mmmm… http://tr.im/k5AG »
The Supreme Court’s profanity ruling may end up boosting net neutrality (i.e., restriction-free Internet) http://tr.im/k4pF »
GoDaddy advises against buying .tv domain names because Tuvalu, the island that controls .tv, is sinking :( http://tr.im/k8kN »
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February 10, 2012
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