News

One of the most frequently sought after subjects on the Internet is news. Many people in modern society get their information solely from the Internet. Even more interestingly the number of outlets for news has skyrocketed.

Historically, news outlets were local monopolies or nearly so. Across the nation various locals paid people to do essentially the same task for the locality. As the Internet has grown, the necessity for those locals has severely diminished and the section which is still required is dramatically smaller than it has been historically.

In the place of the historical news have risen a wide variety of aggregators and blogs who put their own spins on different collections of the news. These outlets do not do any real "reporting" but are many people's first contact with their daily news. The state of the industry is still in flux, but it is clearly going through dramatic upheavals.