Monday, November 06, 2006
News Tries Social Services
That seems to be what Gannett, the publishers of McPaper, (USA Today) and many local papers is saying by "reinventing" newsrooms to become funnels for user generated news, according to Wired News.
The YouTube/MySpace phenomenon has clearly penetrated the minds of media moguls (I've recently heard references to MySpace on two prime time shows), but refocusing the news collection process to rely on readers is crazy.
Having a social aspect to news gathering will let publishers tap into the public vibe, but be careful what you ask for, because I'm sure the papers will get overwhelmed with crap. Why do you think newspapers are written on a 5th grade level?
Adding blogs and letting people rank stories is a smarter way to tap Web 2.0.
Or, you can let users customize their news experience by aggregating news from around the web, as reported by Bambi Francisco. Inform is grouping news and distributing to publishers to add context to articles, and she says a MySpace news page would make sense. A smart RSS reader can do that for you today, but it is a time-consuming and imperfect process.
Posted By John Gartner at 03:09 PM
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