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The Convoluted Life Cycle of a News Story

Posted by timothy on from the ok-let's-randomly-update-this-story dept.

ideonexus writes "Once upon a time, newspapers were considered the "first draft of history." Today, rather than the daily episodic updates of major news stories developing a narrative over time, we have a perpetual stream of factoids from which a story emerges. Lauren Rabaino of mediabistro details this new lifecycle of a newspaper story, from tweets to blog posts to an eventual print edition, and asks What are the best standards of practice? Should news sources provide a single web address with a stream of updates, post new blog entries that link to older ones, or should they adopt a Wiki approach to the news — revising a single story with a history of revisions available behind the scenes?"

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  1. Cell phone voicemail by Dark$ide · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here in the UK all the news comes from hacking cell phone voicemail systems.

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  2. Complimentary copy by vlm · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought it was all about complimentary copy advertorials? They actually still have reporters?

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    1. Re:Complimentary copy by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Funny

      Somebody has to spell-check and scrub for PR-flack fingerprints the press releases before they can be reformatted and sent to the printer...

  3. Re:I have a novel idea. by Baloroth · · Score: 3, Funny

    That sounds like something Hitler would say!

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  4. "Homeless Veteran Bites Dog" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      update: Homeless man was not a veteran.

      update 2: Unconfirmed whether man was homeless or not.

      update 3: Actually the dog bit the man, not the other way around.

      update 4: The victim was a 9-year old boy, and the dog was a pit bull mix. Boy lived down the street.

      update 5: Owner of the pit bull failed to register dog as dangerous breed with authorities.

      update 6: The dog was a fox terrier, no special registration was required.

      update 7: Bite by dog not confirmed, but there was a lot of loud barking.

  5. It's worse here by macwhizkid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here in the US all our news comes from the UK from hacking cell phone voicemail systems.