[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
A gaggle of Google news items: Unlike the past several weeks with their paywall and iPad revelations, this week wasn’t dominated by one giant future-of-media story. But there were quite a few [...]

[Yesterday, we showed how our Martin Langeveld's predictions for 2009 turned out. A few hits, a few misses, but lots of thoughts provoked. Here's his list of what we can expect in 2010. —Josh]
Newspaper ad revenue: At least technically, the recession is over, with GDP growth measured at 2.2 percent in Q3 of 2009 and [...]

Must-reading for anyone keeping up with the resurgent meme of paid content is Steve Brill’s “secret” memo, published today on Romenesko, that offers his plan to save The New York Times by putting it on the path toward paid web content.
Though it sometimes reads like Lee Abrams with a spell-checker (How to charge for content? [...]