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Chase Hensel / The Official Google Blog:

Expanding Google News for more variety and multimedia — (Cross-posted from the Google News blog) — Every day, Google News crawls through thousands of news articles to present you with the most relevant and recent stories. For a long time, we've realized that bringing relevant news …

Discussion: CNET News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Pulse2, Search Engine Land, NewsGrange, PC Magazine, ReadWriteWeb and Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme »

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Look Out Blogs: Google News Gains Options To Drop Blogs & Press Releases — Tired of seeing blogs or press releases in your Google News homepage? Google's got a cure for that, new settings that allow you to see fewer results from these sources, or none at all.

Discussion: Search Engine Roundtable and WebProNews, more at Techmeme »

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post Disputes Study Touting Drudge's Influence — NEW YORK — The Washington Post is pushing back against a much-discussed new study that claims the Drudge Report website drives 15 percent of the paper's online traffic. — A Post spokeswoman told The Huffington Post …

Discussion: On Media's Blog, Media and Communications …, ZDNet, The Wire, CyberJournalist.net, NewsTrust and Future of Journalism

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Drudge influence may remain, but numbers show his audience waxes and wanes — Among the findings of last week's Pew report on what drives traffic to — and from — news websites, David Carr today highlights the continuing influence of the Drudge Report. — As Carr noted, Nielsen numbers cited …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire and @megan

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:

Columbia Journalism School to launch The New York World — Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism is launching an ambitious digital project - The New York World - designed to provide New York City citizens with accountability journalism about government operations that affect their lives.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Editors Weblog, CJR, Future of Journalism, FishbowlNY and ShortFormBlog

David Kaplan / paidContent:

AOL HuffPo Media Group On Editorial Hiring Spree Following Layoffs — After a raft of layoffs and departures that followed AOL's $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post in February, Arianna Huffington is hiring a bunch of new editors to reset the combined entities' newsroom …

Discussion: Poynter, Saul Hansell's Blog, MediaFile, Techland, Adweek, Forbes.com, Future of Journalism, Capital New York, The Wire, FishbowlNY, On Media's Blog and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

AOL Huffpo Goes Trade with Energy, Gov't and Defense Sites — It's war! Except for the lady on the right. She has no beef here. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Don't ever accuse Arianna Huffington of lacking ambition. For her next act, the AOL Huffington Post editor in chief …

Discussion: Reuters, Yahoo! News and MarketingVOX

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Moneyball and paywalls: Lessons on paid content from smaller papers — It's not that hard to find similarities between baseball and the newspaper industry. On one side you've got the New York Yankees: big payroll, extensive resources, and a renowned line-up.

Discussion: CJR

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Ireland's love of print can survive the worst of recessions — This is a small country of 4.5 million but these are people who buy newspapers — Ireland will soon play host to the Queen and Barack Obama - like all good US presidents, Obama claims Irish descent.

Discussion: Adweek and Free Press

Emma Barnett / Telegraph:

Forbes chief's digital approach should be mimicked — Steve Forbes, the billionaire chairman and editor-in chief of Forbes Media, has been able to launch a new European print edition, having made digital pay. — Forbes Media has launched an European version of its flagship title.

Discussion: MediaPost

John C Abell / Epicenter:

Four More Conde Nast Titles Begin Digital Subscriptions — Four more Conde Nast titles began digital subscriptions Monday — Vanity Fair, Glamour, Golf Digest and Allure — bringing to five the number now available via Apple's iTunes store. — “Today's rollout follows last Monday's successful debut …

Discussion: Gizmodo

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Many Formats, One Price — More Publications Begin Bundling …

Discussion: GigaOM, TUAW and Adweek

Jane Mayer / New Yorker:

Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state? — Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state? — Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency, faces some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen. Photograph by Martin Schoeller.

Discussion: Salon, Techdirt, Threat Level and MetaFilter

Sarah Kessler / Mashable!:

Space Shuttle Twitpic Launches Woman to Tweeting Fame — When Stefanie Gordon boarded her plane in New York City to visit her parents in Palm Beach, the captain noted there was a chance passengers would witness the space shuttle Endeavour's last launch during the flight.

Discussion: Search Engine Land, The Atlantic Wire, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac and Gawker

Peter Lattman / DealBook:

After 22 Years — 22 Years! — K.K.R. Is Exiting Primedia — If you happened to stroll by the offices of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company on Monday, you might have seen Henry R. Kravis removing an albatross around his neck. — The albatross is Primedia …

Discussion: TechCrunch and Folio