The Knight Foundation is opening up its contest by changing its rules and shortening the gestation period for ideas.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: Yahoo retreats from paid content, trends in journalism job market, paper doll clothing out of New York Times Magazine
Yahoo retreating from paid content: Stops charging for fantasy football, may do same for real-time stocks http://tr.im/yXbw »
Not *all* of these charts are depressing: @MichaelMandel looks at trends in the journalism job market http://tr.im/yXfE »
Whenever @kdoctor asks Q’s about the news industry — this time, he’s got 9 — I’m left mulling them for days http://tr.im/yXho »
Among 81 for-profit news startups, 58% make less than $500 per month in ad revenue. More data from CUNY: http://tr.im/yYbO »
Well, hello, my new favorite blog: Paper doll clothing fashioned out of each week’s New York Times Magazine http://tr.im/yZkr »
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