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April 5, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: AP creates regional investigative teams, WaPo plans tiered comments, Wikileaks comes into its own

AP is creating four regional investigative teams to serve as resources for AP journos nationwide http://j.mp/avZi6C »

Early data shows iPads are not as easy as iPhones to use at your desk http://j.mp/d9sM6u »

Print still reigns: only 4.5% of newspaper pageviews happened online between June 2009-Feb 2010 http://j.mp/aOaU13 »

TPM traffic soared 79% in March over last year, @joshtpm credits an expanded reporting team, social media strategy http://j.mp/dlRoTx »

Google picks up online video platform Episodic http://j.mp/bPXXWc »

“Mr Jobs ushered in the personal computer era and now he is trying to usher it out”: @zittrain on the iPad http://j.mp/9buZSQ »

.@jenny8lee is live-tweeting a Wikileaks presser re: video they have of US military firing on a Reuters news van (via @mathewi»

WaPo, following Gawker, plans to implement tiered comment system (via @romeneskohttp://j.mp/ap1qXw »

Very very early iPad trend: big media companies doing well in free app section, not so much in paid http://j.mp/bZ0rox »

Has the FT unlocked the secret to profitability with higher cover prices, subscriptions and pay walls? http://j.mp/aEcUVH »

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The media becomes an activist for democracy
“We cannot be neutral about this, by definition. A free press that doesn’t agitate for democracy is an oxymoron.”
Embracing influencers as allies
“News organizations will increasingly rely on digital creators not just as amplifiers but as integral partners in storytelling.”
Action over analysis
“We’ve overindexed on problem articulation, to the point of problem admiring. The risk is that we are analyzing ourselves into inaction and irrelevance.”