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 
Hello, 2010
…and we’re back from our winter break. (A special thanks to The New York Times’ David Carr, who gave separate shout-outs to our site and our Twitter account while we were away. Also, hello, 1,000 new followers.) We’ve got lots of new and exciting stuff planned for 2010, so stay tuned.
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