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Feb. 19, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: CBS plans to cut iTunes prices, experts say Google isn’t making us stupid, reuters to add “paid services” this year

Reuters CEO says the site (drawing 30 million monthly uniques) will add “paid services” in 2010http://j.mp/cMeRjq »

Mixed media book publisher, Vook, which integrates social media and video with text, gets $2.5 million in seed funding http://j.mp/9kPvUV »

Pew asks Internet experts: Is Google making us stupid? 81% say the net will have made us smarter by 2020 http://j.mp/azRQMB »

Study looks at publishers online money-making efforts, ie: WaPo’s point system creates strong base for a paywall http://j.mp/9C0waI »

Early win for Apple: CBS plans price cut for shows on iTunes. Will publishers bend for iPad? http://j.mp/cwinCY »

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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.”