NYT launches Times Wire to show latest news
Posted by Emma Heald on May 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM
The New York Times has launched Times Wire on its website, a page which offers a stream of links and extracts for Times stories in the order that they are published on the web, with the newest at the top. It is the first NYT product built using the Times Newswire API, reported Tech Cruch. There is a tab for all news, one for business and technology, and a personalisation possibility: a 'Your News' tab for which readers can choose their own topics of interest. The stream updates automatically. A selection of photos from the articles listed appear in a section to the right of the stream, which readers can click on to access the stories.
This sort of service is clearly more useful for breaking news than for older stories, but alternative ways of reading news that take advantage of the possibilities offered by the Internet seem to be an appropriate step forward, and it will be appreciated by readers read the site regularly and are only interested in what is new. Newspaper readers are becoming more and more accustomed to getting the latest news fast, and this will certainly them do that.
Source: Tech Crunch
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