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: Huffington Post, shield law, Google, 1,000-year cover story
Very significant: The Huffington Post has poached The Washington Post’s veteran investigations editor http://tr.im/lSig »
NY legislators introduce bill that would extend the state’s shield law to cover “journalist bloggers” http://tr.im/lV8F »
Google considered purchasing a newspaper or funding non-profit news but rejected both ideas, CEO Eric Schmidt tells the FT http://tr.im/lVKD »
“Top 10 search engine optimization tips for online news start-ups” http://tr.im/lSow »
ProPublica asks readers to “adopt” a federal stimulus project and report on its progress http://tr.im/lTId »
The cover story in Opium Magazine this month is just nine words but will take you a thousand years to read http://tr.im/lSat »
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