Today the Baltimore Sun unveiled a blog-style breaking news web site, baltimorebreakingnews.com. Clearly, this site is still being developed. So far, it seems to just consist of excerpts from reporter stories posted throughout the day. Assumedly this will eventually change. Readers are not clamouring for normal newspaper stories to be presented in the form of a long chronological list.
A better use for this site would be to publish blurbs that you wouldn't normally find in a newspapers. People would love to know, say, if anybody was hurt in that three-car accident they passed, or if there was a water main break near their kid's school, and so forth.
It could also be used to provide updates on a big, breaking story as they come in. I imagine that is a use the Sun folks had in mind.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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