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How much would you pay for an opinion article by Paul Krugman? How much would you shell out for an article on a new RNA discovery?

As newspapers ponder the move to making readers pay for access to news content online, with many announcing that they will start to do so soon, the costs of running a newsroom and the value of news articles take center stage. With many wanting us to pay for content, we cannot help but to wonder how much that content is really worth.

Earlier this week, the Huffington Post replaced CEO Betsy Morgan with media-industry venture capitalist Eric Hippeau. The change seems intended to mark a new era for the news aggregator site as it seeks to capitalize on its immense popularity.

"In our space, staying still doesn't work," Arianna Huffington told paidContent.org. "You can't stand still. We need to keep monetizing our traffic at a higher level - and we need to keep expanding. Everything on the internet is accelerated; we need to accelerate."

With news changing every minute, why do news sites like The New York Times remain mostly unchanged throughout the day? Scott Karp writes, "Why shouldn't the WHOLE site -- especially the homepage -- be aligned with the web, instead of aligned with the static print product?"

Instead of display the news by importance, Karp suggests a blog-like method of arranging the news in reverse chronological order so viewers can read what's new. Better yet, news sites can offer different default page options like Digg: articles ranked by importance, by reverse chronological order, and by readers' favorites.

Though The New York Times and other newspapers have blogs, their links are not prominently featured on the homepage.

Karp brings up the debate of editor vs. reader discretion, and one has to question the consequences of his proposition. The New York Times certainly has the staff to constantly update their website, but hundred of new updates a day would create a chaos of news, not a well-organized news site. Also, if readers voted their favorite articles to the top, The New York Times could resemble a celebrity gossip site, which is not the purpose of news sites. The job of editors is to filter out articles so that readers get the important news, which is why news sites are arranged the way they are.


Source: Publishing 2.0 through IFRA
 

The Mail and Guardian (MandG) Online has just launched a South African blog aggregator, Amatomu, which ranks and sorts out the country’s blogosphere according to ‘most-popular’, categories, newest postings and more. Amatomu symbolizes the paper’s evolving philosophy, from being a content producer to being a “facilitator of knowledge-makers.”