How Newspapers Abdicated the Front Page’s Influence and How They Can Get it Back By Sharing Links

How Newspapers Abdicated the Front Page’s Influence and How They Can Get it Back By Linking

from Publishing 2.0 by Scott Karp

The front page of the newspaper used to set the news agenda. Extra, Extra, read all about it! But that influence has steadily waned through the TV and Cable News era, and the web now threatens to obliterate it entirely.

So who sets the news agenda now? One significant influence is a guy with nothing but a page full of links (you know, the kind that “send people away”).

In a post the other day, Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza called Drudge “the single most influential source for how the presidential campaign is covered in the country.”...