A New News Paradigm
I've been thinking about how when any kind of news breaks you end up with an article from basically every big news outlet about it and from plenty of small outlets that are trying to become big ones. It feels like everyone is trying to get in on the attention that comes with news but also just wants to say every new story in their own words and that there's a ton of duplication of work instead of building on things we already know. my thought is this: what if there was a way for news orgs and journalists to publish their articles on an app in ATproto, and then other orgs/independent journalists could "certify" certain parts of the article as a good way to frame the issue or they can "contest" parts of the article and add their own context. This allows orgs to intuitively collaborate on stories, easily identifying pieces of the story that are more controversial, and allowing each news outlet/journalist to either formally contribute their own thoughts to the story that broke the news or create their own article about the story like normal.