Craig Stoltz, on CNN leading the pack in newswriting
Web 2.0h…really?
• CNN has figured out what newspapers editors discovered by the 1920s.
• People skim the news, rather than read the story.
• Stories appearing on the CNN Web site are topped by a bulleted list titled Story Highlights.
• [...]
• CNN creates very little original news.
• The whole story HERE
Interesting story…
They mentioned another site I wasn’t aware of that is definitely worth a look:
http://www.newser.com/
The news summaries here are written by editors, but the page layout is quite a bit more “Web 2.0.”