Slate: "Today's Papers" Now Yesterday's News
Slate has retired their “Today’s Papers” feature, an early pioneer of news consolidation. Acknowledging that they “haven’t been doing the kind of aggregation most of our readers want”, they’ve introduced “The Slatest,” a thrice-daily “list of the 12 most important news stories, blog entries, magazine features, and Web videos of the moment”.
Editor David Plotz, in discussing the move, explained that “from Huffington Post to Real Clear Politics to Newser to that cute little Web site around the corner [who could that be?!], everyone on the Internet seems to be summarizing and repackaging the stories of the day.
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