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Aggregators Are Key To Online Survival For Newspapers

Scott, I appreciate your taking this truly substantive issue regarding the fate of traditional news. Unfortunately, its not as simple as "old media" getting with the "new media" plan. The issue is about how to collect news, the actual content, when the traditional revenue model is wrecked by aggregators. The statistics reported by the Project for Excellence in Journalism document this fact. Thus it is not just where the traffic goes, but who gets the revenue. If the news collecting organizations do not get sufficient revenue then the news doesn't get reported. The other problem is that more online outlets for news are reporting the same (NY Times) news story and collecting revenue for paraphrasing rather reporting. Check some citations at:
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