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: Bloomberg’s speed desk, AP’s topic pages, after-parties in abandoned newspaper boxes
Bloomberg News has 200 journalists on its “Speed Desk” publishing headlines seconds ahead of competitors http://tr.im/EXLJ »
The AP wants to create topic pages to rival Wikipedia, whose founder says, “Sounds like a good idea” http://tr.im/F4HA »
48% of Americans say they’d pay for news online, compared to 60% of Western Europeans http://tr.im/F4iv »
Are game stories “worthless” or just in need of reinvention? @jasoncfry asks some sports writers http://tr.im/F4Nr »
Slate quickly reels in a spin-off: Double X, with focus on women’s issues, to be folded into main site http://tr.im/F6eY »
Very cool art: Print media’s after-party is raging in an abandoned newspaper box near you http://tr.im/F60w »
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February 10, 2012
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