My latest media innovation column focuses on the upstart companies that curate or aggregate the news from other sites, adding their own slant or original reporting. The people behind these sites have a lot of different approaches and many of them seem to be making money. They largely depend on original reporting from other sources.
An editor at the Tribune-Review wrote the headline: “News aggregators need newspapers.” From my perspective, the newspaper could have said just as easily and accurately…
“Newspapers need to be more nimble.”
Adam Shuck started out two years ago this month with an email to 30 friends, sending them links to Pittsburgh news stories and offering his unique perspective.
He had no formal journalism training but his daily newsletter, “Eat That, Read This,” turned out to be popular. He now has 4,700 subscribers, sells advertisements and has turned writing the emails into a full-time job.
Shuck faithfully credits the original news sources and spreads around links to various media outlets.
He occasionally takes aim at journalists, too. Continue reading here.
Andrew Conte 