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Oct. 30, 2009, 9:59 a.m.

Links on Twitter: Politico’s co-founder on paid content, microsite for NY Times multimedia, Huffington Post’s first uses of Twitter lists

“Trust me, people, you’re going to be paying for content,” says Politico co-founder Jim Vandehei http://tr.im/DsNw »

Always worth remembering the Bloomberg terminal is also a social network for Wall Street http://tr.im/DsJE »

Oh, hey, it’s a site — for advertisers, but we can look, too — with all the New York Times’ cool multimedia http://tr.im/DuUU »

Pet Holdings, which profits off digital content (albeit LOLcats), makes a third of its revenue from books http://tr.im/DugD »

This is great: Huff Post’s guide to the World Series on Twitter http://tr.im/DwBE Healthcare: http://tr.im/DwCm (HT @ckanal»

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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.”