Jay Rosen spells out real clear just what’s needed for a top class news site in 2007.

The most interesting points:

• High quality aggregation.
• Original reporting from both amateurs and pro journos.
• Contextualize news into datasets and have mini-hubs around big stories and events.
• Geo-tagged info that can be accessed traditionally or by location (via maps, lists etc.).
• Blogging platform with most interesting content filtered up to front page.

The aggregation point may be the most alien to most traditional content providers. Getting old-school editors to link to ‘rival’ producers is going to be tough for most organizations. But for the content consumer this can only be a good thing that will only enhance the trust they have in the content provider.
Can content providers distinguish themselves in this way from being simply content creaters

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