To nobody's surprise, this week's announcement of the New Times-Village Voice Media merger has generated a boatload of coverage from every corner of the Internet. You could keep track of it all with a Google News search, but Google News isn't very good yet at separating wheat from chaff. At aan.org we're reading it all, from prosaic news reports to the looniest blog ravings, so we can point you to some of the more interesting coverage while sparing you endless repeats of the AP feed. We will continue to update this page throughout the week.

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Talk of the Nation, October 27, 2005 · Guests: Mike Lacey, executive editor for New Times; Bill Wyman, assistant managing editor for NPR's Arts Desk; Patty Calhoun, editor, Westword in Denver, Colo.; Tim Redmond, executive editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian weekly.

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