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: MSNBC may develop EveryBlock independently, what happens when NPR.org breaks, Techmeme adds more humans
MSNBC may develop EveryBlock, the local-info aggregator, on its own instead of folding it into MSNBC.com http://tr.im/Fjb6 »
Intelligent failure: “What Happens When Stuff Breaks On NPR.org” http://tr.im/FjIK »
Congrats to MinnPost on raising $18,000 yesterday. Key: They’ve partnered with a statewide “giving portal” http://tr.im/FdFD »
New York Times is ditching Times Extra, which nobody used, and rethinking the best way to link out http://tr.im/Ff8d »
Techmeme, the invaluable tech-news aggregator, adds three more human editors, doubling its staff http://tr.im/FfkY »
How the news summaries Richard Nixon received from his staff of aggregators affected his presidency http://tr.im/FeJJ »
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February 10, 2012
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