virtualeconomics: A citizen journalism model that really breaks news?

"London-based citizen journalism start-up Blottr ... led the news agenda for much of Monday by breaking the day's major UK news story. ... First publishing a few minutes after 10am, Blottr broke the news of a bomb alert in London and over the day added pictures, detail and coverage of the events in the square and the controlled explosion carried out in Trafalgar Square around 9am. Sky and the BBC picked up the story around 3 hours later... "

virtualeconomics: A citizen journalism model that really breaks news?

"London-based citizen journalism start-up Blottr ... led the news agenda for much of Monday by breaking the day's major UK news story. ... First publishing a few minutes after 10am, Blottr broke the news of a bomb alert in London and over the day added pictures, detail and coverage of the events in the square and the controlled explosion carried out in Trafalgar Square around 9am. Sky and the BBC picked up the story around 3 hours later... "

BuzzMachine: Helping news be news

"Google News has just open-sourced its code to create what it calls Living Stories. What this really is, I think, is Google’s attempt to take editors to school on content presentation in our new world. The article, I’ve argued, is outmoded as the building block of news. The new atomic unit(s) of journalism needs to reflect the transition of news from a product to a process."

WSJ: Digits: Google’s Mayer To Dispense Advice to Newspapers At Senate Hearing

"Google believes, and has been arguing behind the scenes to some major newspaper publishers, that instead of newspapers publishing multiple articles on the same topic throughout the day, they ought to combine the entries under a permanent Web address. Doing so, Google argues, can help publishers–which often complain that their journalism is getting buried amid other less serious content–increase the authoritativeness of their articles and surface higher in Google search results."