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: Sections, Dow Jones, Play the News
The web may be rendering our notion of news sections obsolete. NYT developer @harrisj mulls it over http://tr.im/mNb1 »
Dow Jones, betting the Bloomberg terminal will go out of style, is revamping its data services for the web http://tr.im/mMkn »
The growth in long-form video streaming on sites like Hulu is being driven by 35-49-year-olds, not teens http://tr.im/mMKe »
Slate: “Does today’s hush-hush meeting of newspaper executives violate antitrust law?” http://tr.im/mJOb »
Here’s a data point: newsprint consumption among U.S. newspapers declined 30% in April from year prior http://tr.im/mPjW »
The first Knight News Game Award (@G4C) goes to Play the News, a fascinating site. Sort of a real-life Risk http://tr.im/mNNX »
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