http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/04/08/the-good-news-about-newsroom-buyouts/ A class blog for Harvard Law\'s \"The Web Difference\" (2008) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:41:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/04/08/the-good-news-about-newsroom-buyouts/comment-page-1/#comment-131 tsullivan Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:09:04 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/04/08/the-good-news-about-newsroom-bu#comment-131 I agree that eliminating your newsroom would be a bad idea (here's the story in the New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/business/media/08cbs.html?ex=1365 by the way). It seems though that it would be similar in a way to what Huffington Post or Drudge do - taking someone else's reporting and collecting and packaging it for your audience. I agree that eliminating your newsroom would be a bad idea (here’s the story in the New York Times – http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/business/media/08cbs.html?ex=1365 by the way). It seems though that it would be similar in a way to what Huffington Post or Drudge do – taking someone else’s reporting and collecting and packaging it for your audience.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/04/08/the-good-news-about-newsroom-buyouts/comment-page-1/#comment-130 kparker Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:53:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/04/08/the-good-news-about-newsroom-bu#comment-130 That might be a good thing, but just eliminating your newsroom (as CBS is rumored to be doing) and contracting it out to a third party (in this case CNN) is much more troubling. That might be a good thing, but just eliminating your newsroom (as CBS is rumored to be doing) and contracting it out to a third party (in this case CNN) is much more troubling.

]]>