Plus: News Corp.’s growing scandal and Rupert Murdoch’s Twitter candor, the hazards of Facebook Subscribe, and the rest of the week’s must-reads.
This week in review: Facebook’s future and the open web, and finding balance on breaking news nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: Google to let users skip pre-rolls, visualization of CNN’s traffic since 1995, draft logo for NYT’s Bay Area Blog
Google thinks it can make pre-roll ads on YouTube more valuable by letting users skip them http://tr.im/EJRH »
As Phoenix daily folds, a diagnosis: too hasty in migrating from paid print copies to free to web http://tr.im/EKnr »
Beautiful visualization of CNN.com’s traffic, 1995-2009 http://tr.im/EL0T (via @daringfireball) »
Current TV abandoning its old bailiwick, short-form video, for “30-60 minute formats”http://tr.im/EL9J (HT @tigerbeat) »
Less than one-tenth of 1% of NYTImes.com readers use TimesExtra, which links to outside content, says @jimschachter at #newbiz. »
NYT’s @silencematters works on a logo for new Bay Area blog: “Does this look like San Francisco?” http://twitpic.com/p5gjv »
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