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How to Make Network News Relevant Again (New York Mag)
Adam Sternbergh: The nightly news is stuck in a classic death spiral: afraid to alienate aged viewers but not converting any new ones. The form is petrified; haunted by the ghosts of Jennings, Brokaw, and Rather and, of course, the chain-clanking Cronkite. Trouble is, a generation from now, no one's going to be haunted by the ghosts of Gibson, Couric, and Williams.

Time Names YouTube 'Invention of the Year' (Time)
Nintendo invented a video game you control with a magic wand. A new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. A robot learned to ride a bike. Somebody came up with a nanofabric umbrella that doesn't stay wet. But only YouTube created a new way for millions of people to entertain, educate, shock, rock and grok one another on a scale we've never seen before.

Layoffs at MediaNews Bay Area Papers (Contra Costa Times)
The East Bay newspapers operated by MediaNews Group Inc. said jobs had been eliminated in several locations, with the cuts affecting every part of the publishing operation. A "sudden and steep decline" that has jolted the housing market in the Bay Area, coupled with an ongoing migration of advertising money to the Internet, forced the papers to reduce staffing, said an executive with the newspapers.

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