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: Long tail of MSNBC video, National Public Radio’s API calls double, Google News experiments with “Interesting Reads”
As MSNBC puts much more video online, “the demand has shifted from the most popular videos to the tail” http://tr.im/x3BQ »
API activity for National Public Radio nearly doubled between June and July, to over 6m calls http://tr.im/x3zk »
Update on Google News “Interesting Reads” http://tr.im/wZie Google tells me it’s a test for “small % of users,” won’t say how stories picked »
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February 10, 2012
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