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Chicago Tribune is using Publish2 to power a branded news aggregation feature on their Breaking News blog. The Tribune adapted Colonel Tribune, their web ambassador, to create Colonel Tribune Recommends, a roundup of “links of interest to Chicagoans.”

The news staff at the Tribune is using a Publish2 Newsgroup to collaboratively gather and publish2 links for Colonel Tribune Recommends.

When the news broke of IL governor Blagojevich’s arrest, Chicago Tribune complemented their extensive original reporting with a roundup of coverages from sources around the web. The Tribune used a Publish2 Newsgroup to dynamically update the page as the story evolved, creating one of the most robust aggregations of Blagojevich news on the web.

Tribune editors and reporters added comments to each link, providing perspective on why each item is of interest to those following the story. These journalist comments distinguish Tribune’s news aggergation from commidity aggregations produced by algorithms.

The Tribune featured the Blagojevich coverage roundup on the homepage shortly after the story broke:

And continued to featured the coverage roundup on the homepage as the story evolved:

Technical implementation: Publish2 widget

Tribune journalists are sharing what they are reading with a “Connect With Us” feature appearing on business, nation/world, entertainment, and sports homepages. Each Connect With Us is based on a Publish2 newsgroup. Journalists recommend each link with a unique comment, creating a much higher quality and differentiated editorial product than an algorithm could produce.

At the bottom of each feature is a link to a dedicated page of stories, which produces additional page views.

Technical implementation: Publish2 widget

Dallas Morning News is using Publish2 to create a timely news aggregation feature called Dollar Wise, which links to articles and resources on how to save money across ten different topics, e.g. groceries, health, home. Using a Publish2 Newsgroup, the Dallas team is collaborating to add links to the feature, rather than placing the burden on one person.Dallas enhances the value of the link by adding comments and perspective:

Technical implementation: Feeds and Publish2 widget

Knoxnews.com’s UT sports site Govolxtra has been using Publish2 to create coverage roundup articles with reactions from sports bloggers and other local sites. When University of Tennessee began a search to replace coach Phillip Fulmer, Govolsxtra tracked the story with a daily news roundup. With intense fan interest in the new coach, this coverage roundup page generated hundreds of comments and became the #1 page view generator across Govolsxtra and Knoxnews.

Technical implementation: Publish2 RSS feed parsing

STLToday is using news roundup created on Publish2 to anchor its Outdoors vertical, alongside the Hook and Bullets blog, demonstrating how link journalism can complement original content.

Technical implementation: Publish2 widget

STLtoday used Publish2 to create a roundup of blog commentary on the arrest of IL Governenor Blagojevich.

STLtoday featured the blog roundup on their homepage coverage of the Blagojevich story.

Technical implementation: Publish2 widget

The San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate web site is using Publish2 to supplement their California layoff notice database with links to news stories about layoffs.

Technical implementation: Publish2 widget

Reading Eagle created a feature called From the Newsroom, featuring link selections from editors and journalists in their newsroom.

Here’s what Administrative Editor John Boor had to say about the feature and using Publish2:

The idea of linking to other news sources and providing a constantly updated list of linked-to stories is one of the goals. We’re hoping to increase our site traffic in our own, smaller way, using the model of “The Drudge Report,” and others who, essentially, create success by being mega-aggregators.

Secondly, we see it as an opportunity to inject more personality into the site. We’re hoping that people will connect with staffers’ faces or names they’ve seen, and maybe keep checking back to see what one of their favorites thinks is important enough to share.

Third, it’s been a while now since I’ve seen the importance of social networking tools, such as Twitter, Facebook, etc., not only to aid journalists, but to engage readers and, basically, cast wide, digital nets in an effort to build a sense of community with our news site as the hub. We’d like to encourage a much greater buy-in by those who visit our site, and by using these tools. Publish2 has come along just in time to help us with that. Now, with our “What we’re reading” page(s), we’re not just passing down our own material from our ivory towers. We’re no longer the gatekeepers. We’re stepping out onto the public square and sharing stories that are important to us and hoping they may help others.

Publish2 has given us a way to accomplish this project very easily. We can populate the page dynamically, using the widget you provide on each user’s links page. We just have our staffers register with Publish2 and the rest is pretty much a piece of cake. It is so easy to link from the browser toolbar widget that it takes very little additional time for our staffers to share what they’re reading. In addition to this functionality, we really like the way Publish2 encourages the sharing of links, whether to our own news site or to others’. It’s exciting to me to consider the possibilities. I appreciate your efforts to provide this venue, allowing news organizations to cooperate in mutually beneficial ways, for the public good. It doesn’t hurt, either, that it provides an alternative to the more traditional and expensive ways to procure and disseminate news and other worthwhile information.

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Technical implementation: Publish2 widgets

Washington City Paper is using Publish2 Newsgroup for their DC Inauguration Guide to round up news on “What to Expect.”

Technical implementation: Publish2 feed parsing

Technical implementation: Publish2 widget

Rochester Post-Bulletin is using Publish2 to add links to opinion pieces from around the web to its own opinion page.

Technical implementation: Publish2 widget

Anniston Star uses Publish2 to round up links to news from around the web on the SEC championship and other major sporting events. They use the RSS feed of their links to create a widget using Yourminis.

Technical implementation: Publish2 RSS feed in Yourminis widget

Danish newspaper Berlingske uses Publish2 to publish links to relevant stories on their crime reporting page.

Technical implementation: Publish2 widgets

Gatehouse News Service used Publish2 to gather and publish links for their election site.

On Election Day, GateHouse used Publish2 to distribut links from the GHNS election site to its newspaper sites. Ryan Sholin, GateHouse’s Director of Community Site Publishing, explains how it worked:

But, wouldn’t it be nice to have a constant stream of headlines available for readers obsessively pounding the refresh button looking for updates on local races? Without depending on any one source, like the AP, that everyone else has on their sites?

Yeah, it would:

I’ve been working with editors from the GateHouse News Service to use Publish2 as a bookmarking engine to route headlines from our browsers to that widget on many GateHouse sites. In fact, the news service has been using it for months now to feed links to their Elections page.

Technical implementation: Feed parsing

When Hurricane Gustav hit Louisiana, GateHouse Media used Publish2 to roundup coverage of the hurricane from around the web and publish the links on their Louisiana newspaper sites as the newsrooms were dealing with the impact of the storm. GateHouse effectively created an internal newswire for hurricane news.

Technical implementation: Publish2 widgets

Division III die-hard fans who read D3football.com now have a place to find Division III football news from all over the web, thanks to editor Pat Coleman and national columnist Keith McMillan. Pat and Keith use a Publish2 Newsgroup to collaborate on rounding up links to Division III football news which they publish under “What We’re Reading” on the home page.

Technical implementation: Publish2 Widget

Veteran business journalist and expert on details found in the footnotes of SEC filings, Michelle Leder uses Publish2 to create a “Recommended Reading” on Footnoted.org (which was recently cited in BusinessWeek’s Best of the Web). Michelle offers insightful and humorous comments about each article that she links, complementing her deep-dive blog posts.

Technical implementation: RSS feed in Wordpress widget

University of Tennessee journalism professor Jim Stovall shares “links of note” on his JPROF blog.

Technical implementation: Publish2 widget

Community newspaper East Oahu Sun is using Publish2 to publish links to Hawaii news from around the web on the web site’s front page.

Technical implementation: Publish2 Widget

Cycling bloggers Steve Klein and Leonard Basobas use a Publish2 Newsgroup to publish a cycling news roundup, Hot Off the Presses, on their blog Triple Crankset.

Technical implementation: Publish2 Widget

Energy and technology journalist Peter Fairley publishes his links as Editor’s Reading on his Carbon-Nation blog.

Technical implementation: Publish2 Widget