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| What
do you think Yahoo! Full Coverage's role is in the online news
industry? |
Full Coverage is meant to be both a breaking news source and an expansive,
archival record of everything we cover. A user can choose to read a
single news story or spend hours researching all of the material we
present. In this way, it serves as a complement to Yahoo!'s main news
site, where there is an enormous amount of material on a great deal
of subjects, all generated very quickly. Full Coverage is Yahoo!
News' editorial, manually-driven component, focusing on a smaller
number of stories and taking the time to explore each one thoroughly.
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| When
does a story become enough of a story that Yahoo! starts a Full
Coverage file on it? |
Our criteria is similar to that of other news services.
That is, we make editorial decisions as to which stories we want to devote
time and resources to. Of course, because we are an aggregator and not
a content provider, Full Coverage stories are in part dictated
by what is being covered by the rest of the online news world. If there
are no news stories out there on a particular topic, it would be hard
for us to work up a Web page. But we have the entire Web to choose from
– literally thousands of news sources -- so if we really feel that a subject
deserves quality coverage, we can usually find it somewhere. |
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| Do
you try to reach beyond traditional media sources in covering a story?
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Yes. And, to perhaps belabor the point, that is one of the big advantages
of the Web. We use a lot of nontraditional magazines and Web publications.
We also try, wherever possible, to focus on regional coverage. So we
might use the Jerusalem Post for stories on Israel, the Irish Times
for stories on the North Ireland peace plan, or the local Colorado papers
for stories on the JonBenet Ramsey investigation.
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| As
a site that does not generate its own content, do you feel an editorial
responsibility for what you link to? |
Yes, to a degree. But mainly, we are concerned with trying
to cover as many facets of a story as possible. We strive to present material
from a variety of perspectives and then let the user decide as to its
usefulness. One of the great strengths of online news is how much information
you can put at the disposal of your readers, so the editorial content
can be much more broad-based and reflective of alternative points of views
or trends. |
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How
do you determine what news services to link to?
Do you have any agreements with any newspapers or wires services to feature
their content? |
No, Full Coverage does not have any agreements with news providers.
We use whatever we feel will contribute to a user's understanding of
the story.
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