It's interesting you say that — if producers and Web editors would just link to other news sources, we probably wouldn't have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on AP and other wire material. I'm just saying.

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This is a simple and sensible statement.

The “aggregate” concept is good for the web (as the underlying connections and links are almost invisible to most casual users/readers) – repeat readers likely go to a base source (or pivot-point) they enjoy (ie have a positive consumer experience), and trust to supply them with information and links.

The extension of an entites' own presence to incorporate paper-web uniformity is pretty much a must. Not much more to be said on that.

It will be interesting to see if and how cross-relationships between local papers and web-sources grow and mature. There's journalistic sourcing, article referencing, story collaboration, as well as subscription marketing and distribution (on the paper-side), and ad-sales and sponsorship in both mediums.

Even more challenging would be collaborations between paper-web-paper. Now THAT would be an interesting business model to explore.

I found these articles well worth the read – very inspiring.
Lisa