Tina Brown launches the daily beast. Moving the web site in the direction of "the best of" culled from all sources across the web. The slogan, "Read This Skip That." Goes along with many of the articles I've tagged under future of journalism.

"In greeting readers on Monday, Ms. Brown used the site to ask and answer an obvious question at a time of towering informational clutter: “Why should I visit you when there’s already Slate/Drudge/Huffington Post/TPM/Google News and every other magazine and newspaper?”
Her answer: “Sensibility, darling.”

What do you think of the new site? I'm intrigued by their Big Story concept (http://thedailybeast.com/big-fat-story/#) –where they have a main headline/query of the day (with visual and short caption) and a literal chart of all the major stories (with capsule summaries that appear when roll over each box.) connected to the headline. Click on the boxes and you get the full story or a pop up video.

"Unlike stories on CNN's main site, most content on iReport.com can be uploaded by anyone, without editing. The erroneous piece stayed up for more than three hours – long enough to bounce around the blogosphere – before an Apple spokesperson quashed the rumor.

Citizen journalism, or user-generated content, has proved successful enough to argue against abandoning it over snafus like this, say new media experts. Rather, the episode serves as a public reminder that "news" now includes both traditional journalism and a crowd-sourced model that treats verification as a public process, not a prerequisite for publishing."

Josh Korr, "The longer newsrooms ignore this amazing universe of content, the less relevant they are for readers. The longer the AP fails to help newsrooms find this content, the less useful it will be. A content-sharing service is a good start, but I think the AP — like other wire services — fundamentally misunderstands what a web-era newswire needs to offer…

That’s the real mission of a wire service for the web era: Not to provide full-text versions of a single source’s (or handful of sources’) news, but to offer links to the best stuff culled from ALL sources."