New stories and developments:
- Tribune Co. has agreed to pay former CEO Randy Michaels $675,000 in a settlement stemming from his resignation (Chicago Tribune)
- Beyond the iPad, the tablet market is quite small (All Things D)
- CJR implements subscription service for magazine articles online (CJR)
- Pinellas County, Fla., commissioner says he’ll stop posting comments online under alias (St. Petersburg Times) | Earlier: Commissioner posts to Times site under pseudonym
- “Secrecy bill” passes South Africa National Assembly (News24) | Earlier: South African press club opposes bill
- FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is quietly circulating a draft of new rules for media ownership (Adweek)
Evening reading (and viewing):
- Grad student is using the PolitiFact APIÂ to build “truth goggles” that will ferret out suspicious claims in news articles (Nieman Journalism Lab)
- Firm uses news stories, other publicly available information to predict the future (Wired)
- Why news sites should abandon banner ads in favor of sponsorships (stdout.be)
- Watch the UC-Davis pepper spray incident from four angles at once (Waxy.org)