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Looks like the social networking site is really switching gears. WSJ reports that the unit of News Corp. will focus on accessing entertainment and related information (MySpace had been headed in that direction for some time). Plans are still not firmed up, but the Journal quotes insiders as saying that new features will roll out in the coming months. All this comes amid a shakeup that resulted in the U.S. staff being cut by 30 percent (MySpace is run out of News Corp's online HQs in Bev Hills).

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1:35 PM Sat | A front-page story in the L.A. Times on the opening of KPCC's new studios in Pasadena says that next up for the NPR station is "a major expansion that its board of trustees hopes will make KPCC the hub of a regional constellation of public radio stations and a major source of news and information in Southern California."
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