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: Encouraging innovation at the NY Times and Arizona Republic, Financial Times online subscriptions up, Gawker Media traffic data
How innovation is encouraged at the New York Times http://tr.im/udro and the Arizona Republic http://tr.im/udse »
Financial Times online subscriptions up 18%, but profits down http://tr.im/ucsJ NYT is studying their model. »
For online ads, Disney tracks users’ eye movements, heart rate, skin temperature, and facial expressions http://tr.im/ucvn »
CBS sending a backpack journalist to Afghanistan. With a laptop and camera, she’ll be her own mobile bureau http://tr.im/ufuK »
Care to take a gander at two years of traffic data for Gawker Media’s blogs? http://tr.im/ucwC »
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