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: Eye-tracking study, Tribune’s aggregator, PolitiFact’s theme song
Eye-tracking study finds readers prefer one-column layouts over three http://tr.im/mxRy PDF: http://tr.im/mxRA »
Tribune Co. is readying a news aggregator for Chicago, and @pottsmark can’t wait to see it http://tr.im/mxI0 »
Sotomayor would be first justice “with a history of precedent-setting rulings on cyber law issues” http://tr.im/muNQ »
The Huffington Post, not yet profitable, names its first chief financial officer http://tr.im/mz1k »
Pulitzer-winning PolitiFact gets a new theme song http://tr.im/mB1w But for a site that separates fact from fiction, why so much Auto-Tune? »
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