The Knight News Challenge may be shifting gears, but it’s still an important window into where news innovation is taking us.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: APIs limit censorship, huge traffic at Gawker Media and The Atlantic, MIT/Knight conference
Crucial: Twitter’s open APIs make it much more difficult to censor than a closed website http://tr.im/oETM (via @citmedialaw) »
Gordon Brown backs broadband for all (“as vital as water and gas”) and ties it to future of local news http://tr.im/oEJA »
Mapping the Arabic blogosphere reveals the most linked-to news sites are Al-Jazeera, BBC, and Al-Arabiya http://tr.im/oHBu »
Gawker Media’s nine blogs are averaging a wild 280 million pageviews/month (but its sex blog is lagging) http://tr.im/oHQj »
Meanwhile, The Atlantic had 1.2 million visits *yesterday* on the back of Andrew Sullivan’s Iran blogging http://tr.im/oHWO »
Excited for #fncm09 tomorrow http://tr.im/oFc0 Let me know if you’ll be there — or if you have questions you want me to ask attendees. »
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February 10, 2012
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