Plus: Parsing The New York Times’ paywall figures, a big nonprofit news merger in the Bay Area, and all the rest of this week’s news in media and tech.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: Interview with Josh Cohen of Google News, AP literally tore apart Palin’s book, NYT’s Chicago edition debuts without paid ads
Important! Part two of @dannysullivan‘s interview with Josh Cohen of Google News. Lots of great advice http://tr.im/FmZP »
The AP literally tore apart Sarah Palin’s book to scan and search their exclusive copy http://tr.im/FnP4 (HT @jenny8lee) »
BBC News gets 29% of UK traffic from search engines. And now its headlines are SEO-friendly http://tr.im/FmM0 »
NYT’s Chicago edition debuted today without paid ads http://tr.im/FnZj Bay Area edition had a half-pager http://tr.im/C2uj »
Fox Sports challenging ESPN, Comcast, and regional newspapers in big fight for local markets on the web http://tr.im/Fn6u »
Take a look at the huge infographic on A1 of the The Daily Herald in Everett, WA yesterday http://tr.im/FmV7 »
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February 10, 2012
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