The Digital Edge Blog will be taking a Thanksgiving break Thursday through Sunday. Here are a few recently published articles worth taking a look at over the long weekend.

-          Charles Lewis on the Future of Investigative Journalism on the Web (NewAssignment.net): Center for Public Integrity Founder Charles Lewis talks to NewAssignment.net’s John McQuiad about when newspapers will stop publishing  on paper, developing future news audiences and why this is a difficult time for investigative journalism.

-          The Kid With All the News About the TV News (NYTimes.com): The blogger behind TVNewser.com turns out to be “Brian Stelter, a baby-faced 21-year-old at Towson University,” The New York Times reports.

-          The Legal Dos and Do Nots of Networked Journalism (NewAssignment.net): The California Supreme Court found a Web site cannot be sued for libelous comments posted to the site (read the Associated Press story), but in October, another blogger lost a libel suit for his posts. Where does that leave legal protection for collaborative journalism projects? NewAssignment.net provides a crash-course in first amendment law for Web 2.0 journalism.

-          About That Digital Divide (UseIt.com): Jakob Nielsen writes about the three stages of the digital divide – economic, usability and empowerment – and notes his optimism for the first two areas and pessimism about the last. “The economic divide is a non-issue, but the usability and empowerment divides alienate huge population groups who miss out on the Internet's potential,” Nielsen summarizes. In a related post, Steve Yelvington argues journalists should get rid of the “moldy old” digital divide question entirely. “Some 60 million U.S. households have Internet access. Daily newspapers reach only about 50 million households. Should we be talking about the print partition? The crushed-tree chasm?” he writes.