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: Google enters the future-predicting biz, CNN and CBS News in partnership talks, Ning goes premium
NYT introduces Version 3 of its Times Newswire API http://j.mp/cUgEgP »
The Good Soldiers author David Finkel on TGS, Wikileaks, and the deliberative narrative (via @niemanstory) http://j.mp/cTn54h »
Google Ventures invests in app that tries to predict the future http://j.mp/caau4H »
RT @zseward: Smart, hilarious, and awful: Bloomberg BusinessWeek sponsoring free shoe shines in Midtown: http://twitpic.com/1l0n3x »
CBS News and CNN: reportedly back in partnership negotiations http://j.mp/9Z8xu5 »
Google will begin selling digital books this summer http://j.mp/dfimqJ »
Google tops Compete’s March list of top 50 sites, Facebook right behind http://j.mp/cU0aBD »
Ning goes premium with a three-tiered pricing structure (via @TechCrunch) http://j.mp/d5nYnm »
Hilarity: @geneweingarten on “the great philosophical schism” btw Facebook, Twitter (via @NiemanReports) http://j.mp/9DPwg3 »
Twitter, @NPR honored for “Best Practices” in Webby Awards; see full list of winners here http://j.mp/bdqY »
Draft language of online privacy bill expected today. Players in the $23 billion internet ad biz say, no need! http://j.mp/bcE8Jc »
The first edition of @pierre‘s Honolulu Civil Beat is now live http://j.mp/bwNexu »
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