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: 75% of news execs wary of government subsidies, Tweets work well for video referral
Twitter launches guide for media organizations with tools to “transform media, entertainment, journalism” http://j.mp/9nkUJ7 »
Drop in magazine ad pages continued in Q1, but rate of decline slowed http://j.mp/9DQ15E »
Twitter inches toward global domination, 60% of users live outside the U.S. http://j.mp/aO2Zsl »
Online video watchers referred by a tweet watch the clip almost a full minute longer than other watchers http://j.mp/cR2i0u »
Pew survey of news execs finds 75% have reservations about government subsidies, 78% wary of advocacy money http://j.mp/bjE71i »
As paywall use rises, 20 U.S. newspapers charge $35 or more for access to contenthttp://j.mp/cgCFI1 »
FTC is “carefully reviewing” a complaint asking for an investigation into the ad exchanges of Microsoft, Google, Yahoo http://j.mp/dgQsl8 »
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