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    March 14, 2012, 6:23 p.m.
    849 pixels of newspaper imagery on Facebook
    LINK: www.facebook.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Joshua Benton   |   March 14, 2012

    Harrison Keely at the Chattanooga Times Free Press is assembling examples of how newspapers are using Facebook’s new cover photos — which will be required for Facebook pages as of the end of this month, when Facebook’s Timeline will become mandatory. Nice ones from Washington, Tuscaloosa, New York, and Knoxville.

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