When NPR shared links to KPLU stories on its Facebook page — only visible to people in the Seattle area — the station’s website got record traffic.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: Average size of online staff at newspapers, Austin American-Statesman toys with storystreaming, MinnPost takes real-time advertising out of beta
Average size of online staff: 11 at large-circulation newspapers, 5 at mid-sized, and 2 at small papers http://tr.im/xN5M »
On the frontier of storystreaming: How the Austin American-Statesman gathered user photos with Posterous http://tr.im/xOdK »
Why @AngelaGrant stopped branding herself as a multimedia specialist in favor of all-purpose journalist http://tr.im/xP0N »
MinnPost takes its real-time advertising platform out of beta http://tr.im/xOBu We raved about it here http://tr.im/pKMs »
User-generated content? Hyperlocal news? An Amish paper has been doing it for decades (Twitter now, too) http://tr.im/xNnS »
Pretty cool wall of headlines at the new offices of Edelman, the PR firm http://tr.im/xN6v »
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February 10, 2012
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