In the Bay Area, in Los Angeles, in San Diego — the traditional boundaries of California journalism are shifting fast.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: The fact-checker divide, News Corp’s deep discounts, “the cleansing power of the rewrite”
Who’s solving what and how? New site on social change launches to cover stories with a solution frame http://j.mp/9L88l2 »
The New Yorker currently has 16 fact-checkers, @CraigSilverman reports for @CJR; Der Spiegel has 80 http://j.mp/btxtbX »
Rethinking documentary for the Web: @niemanstory on the line between characters, spectators http://j.mp/aWtBOm »
Investigation. Explanation. Collaboration. @ProPublica, @NPRAmericanLife team up for a big hedge fund expose http://j.mp/a1HVv3 »
Good things ahead RT @markcoddington I’ll be doing full-time work for @NiemanLab to help launch a cool future-of-news project of theirs. »
Guardian News & Media strikes deal to outsource all its commercially funded supplements, website work http://j.mp/bCifyg »
FT and Domino’s prepare tie-ups with Foursquare (via @iwantmedia) http://j.mp/9udPxv »
Josh Benton on the link economy: “Is the Puritan cleansing power valuable enough for us to spend a whole lot of time rewriting copy?” »
NBC.com enlists the Filter to determine what visitors to its site want to watch http://j.mp/amAMGE »
News Corp offering discounts of between 79, 83% for full-page ads in WSJ and Post, the FT reports http://j.mp/aLvG4o »
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February 8, 2012
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