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  Evolution of the Newswire on the Web

  1612 readersJeff Jarvis has post today worth reading, about the emergence of the web as the new newswire and the trend away from traditional newswires like AP: The old syndication model in the old content economy just won’t work today when all the world needs is one copy of a story up in the cloud with links

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  Retraining Wire and Feature Editors to Be Web Curators

  1017 readersIf the wire editor and feature editor roles are becoming obsolete for print newspapers, as Steve Yelvington persuasively argues, then those editors should be retrained — or retrain themselves — as web curators. Rather than become obsolete, these editors could become essential to their news organization’s future on the web. Steve observes: On the Internet, we have

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  The New Associated Press for the 21st Century

  1083 readersThis week, at TechCrunch Disrupt, we’re announcing the launch of Publish2 News Exchange, a platform aimed at disrupting the Associated Press monopoly over content distribution to newspapers. With Publish2 News Exchange, newspapers can replace the AP’s obsolete cooperative with direct content sharing and replace the AP’s commodity content with both free, high-quality content from the Web and content

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  How Newspapers Abdicated the Front Page’s Influence and How They Can Get it Back By Linking

  1443 readersThe front page of the newspaper used to set the news agenda. Extra, Extra, read all about it! But that influence has steadily waned through the TV and Cable News era, and the web now threatens to obliterate it entirely. So who sets the news agenda now? One significant influence is a guy with nothing but

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  Mainstream News Organizations Entering the Web’s Link Economy Will Shift the Balance of Power and Wealth

  1680 readersThe New York Times published an article this week about mainstream news organizations embracing link journalism and news aggregation. Gawker and others scoffed that they are late to the game, which they are, but that misses (predictably) the BIG story. If news orgs like the NYT, Washington Post, and hundreds of newspaper sites start linking to

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  Why Every News Site Should Put a Continuously Updated News Aggregation on the Homepage

  1596 readersMy post on Drudge beating all other news sites on engagement was an aha for many, which is interesting because the lesson of Drudge has been around for a decade. But the lessons of web publishing are all so utterly counterintuitive that I suppose they take a while to sink in. That said, a number of

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  Drudge Report: News Site That Sends Readers Away With Links Has Highest Engagement

  1349 readersThere are two main reasons why news sites are reluctant to send readers away by linking to third-party content. First, you shouldn’t send people away or else they won’t come back to your site. Second, a page with links that sends people away has low engagement, which doesn’t serve advertisers well. But if you actually look

• The New Associated Press for the 21st Century

  344 readersThis week, at TechCrunch Disrupt, we’re announcing the launch of Publish2 News Exchange, a platform aimed at disrupting the Associated Press monopoly over content distribution to newspapers. With Publish2 News Exchange, newspapers can replace the AP’s obsolete cooperative with direct content sharing and replace the AP’s commodity content with both free, high-quality content from the Web and content

• The New Associated Press for the 21st Century

  342 readersThis week, at TechCrunch Disrupt, we’re announcing the launch of Publish2 News Exchange, a platform aimed at disrupting the Associated Press monopoly over content distribution to newspapers. With Publish2 News Exchange, newspapers can replace the AP’s obsolete cooperative with direct content sharing and replace the AP’s commodity content with both free, high-quality content from the Web and content