"The Huffington Post gained the most unique readers among all outlets on a list of top 30 news destinations in October, in the latest monthly data from Nielsen Online. The site grew its uniques year-over-year by a whopping 448% to 8.1 million, and jumped to #18 on the list of top news sites from #20 last month. It had 7.4 million uniques in September."

(Audio). "On Tuesday, November 11, Columbia’s Journalism School convened its annual “Changing Media Landscape” panel to discuss the current state of the news media and the direction it will take in the future. Participants—Sewell Chan, editor of The New York Times’s City Room blog; Jacob Weisberg, chairman of Slate; Erica Smith, news designer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Paper Cuts blog; Adriano Farano, executive editor of CafeBabel.com; and David Cohn, founder of the crowd-funding investigative platform Spot.us—found both reasons to be hopeful and reasons to be vigilant."