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April 19, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: NPR’s API delivered over 1.1 billion stories last month, ProPublica’s service yields many matches, Rolling Stone builds a wall

Amazon exec: “In a lot of respects, teaching a customer to pay ten dollars for a digital book is a great accomplishment.” http://j.mp/9UrgL3 »

NPR’s API has handled nearly 5 billion story requests over last 6 months; in March, it delivered over 1.1 billion stories http://j.mp/avQd9q »

The WePad takes on the iPad with the support of European publishers http://j.mp/dxbsmE »

Congrats to @niemanlab staffers present + past @megangarber and @zseward for being Mirror Award finalists http://j.mp/bdLF1r »

Update on @ProPublica‘s Reporting Matchmaker service (http://j.mp/buEpIm): It’s now connected 140 sources to journalists http://j.mp/9Hw4El »

If WSJ’s New York edition is successful, Murdoch and co. are poised to expand the concept into other areas of the country http://j.mp/9UiOtI »

Carbon…twitprint? Per one estimate, every tweet emits about 0.02 grams of C02 into the atmosphere (via @mathewi) http://j.mp/aYIdcD »

CNN integrates programming content into ads to retain viewers during commercial breaks http://j.mp/9GHiXB »

Aol opens beta testing for Advertising.com’s “Ad Desk,” a self-serve display sales option http://j.mp/a8Ntcv »

Say hello to Climate Desk, a collaboration among @Atlantic_Online @CIRonline @grist @motherjones @PBS @slate @wired http://j.mp/bqtC3d »

HuffPost launches HuffPost Hill, “a one stop shop newsletter for all things DC” http://j.mp/an2k2e »

If he had the Pentagon Papers today, Ellsberg wouldn’t send them to the press; he’d “put them on the Internet” http://j.mp/aog11n »

Norwegian paper starts Craigslist-like site to facilitate ride-sharing for stranded travelers (via @jeffjarvis) http://j.mp/9WKF5I »

Rolling Stone re-launches its website…with a paywall http://j.mp/94URHc »

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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.”