Frank Rich links, others don't

Not Brooks nor Cohen nor Collins nor Dowd nor Friedman nor Herbert nor Kristof nor Kristol nor Krugman. (The lone exception: Charles M. Blow, whom the Times calls its “visual Op-Ed columnist.”)

But Frank Rich does. From the Nieman Journalism Lab.

The End of Me Journalism starts by pointing at good examples of "Them"

Online, there's another alternative, which newspapers seem to have problems figuring out: Beef up coverage by aggregating links from other news sites. I'm always flabbergasted to hear editors complain about sites that link to them (somehow, in this view, the linkers are stealing content), when in fact that traffic is almost always additive- and newspapers should be doing the same thing themselves. Newspaper sites should be the central source of links to anything they cover, and they should use those links to supplement coverage they can't do themselves.

Mark Potts on the future of the "wires".


The next level of this analysis is how to be the "central source". That seems to involve legacy. Should YouTube become a news aggregator?

The Un-missing Link

If news orgs like the NYT, Washington Post, and hundreds of newspaper sites start linking to news and other content around the web in a big way, on their front pages (as the NYT plans) and across their sites, it will have a HUGE impact on the web’s link economy.

From Publishing 2.0