Just the Facts Ma’am

by Shelley Bueche

Online news consumers are quickly becoming their own editors.  “The old idea that surfers are coming to your Web site and coming to your front door, that’s going away,” maintains Lasica, former editor of the Sacramento Bee.  Google has a news aggregation service that pores over 4,500 news sources to use for links.  AOL utilizes old-fashioned technology, people, to look for news links.  Yahoo news relies on RSS, Really Simply Syndication.  Readers just want the story, stat!

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