CNNannounced plans to launch a wire service for newspapers within the cable network.
According to Editor & Publisher the CNN Wire will "provide stories of interest to your newspaper and online readers -- breaking news, national, international, business, politics, consumer, medical, and more. We are talking to a variety of newspapers and newspaper groups, large and small, about this project."
As more and more journalist jobs are cut in the newsroom newspaper reliance on ‘wire stories’ is becoming evident. Some consider news wire agencies a potential threat to unique or tailored news and commentary being delivered to the masses. Whose responsibility is it to ensure that the public gets the varying opinions and commentary on the news they need? Where does this changing role of news wire agencies leave newspapers in the future?
News Dissector Danny Schechter and friends at MediaChannel.org are extending their scrutiny of the media to Europe. The media and democracy activists who watchdog American news outlets and government will join forces with US/Swiss journalist Mark Stenzler to launch a Geneva-based European initiative.
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