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So news pubs have & will always update web stories and heds. But I've been noticing something with the last few articles I've read at CNN...
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I don't know if it is new, b/c news has been developing awfully quickly, or I just hadn't seen it before, but CNN stories can change a lot.
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Like: money.cnn.com/2017/02/09/news/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-brand/index.html which, between it's first capture on archive.org & now has had 44 changes diffchecker.com/Vs8Fz0hM
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Changes include adding a whole contributor, plus a ton of work that alters the angle of a story. I always wonder when I see stuff like this:
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Why not publish a sequence of small stories that connect together rather than one big one on the same URL that keeps changing?
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Readers who aren't aware of this behavior (most of them) aren't going to come back to the article so you have to keep recircing the same URL
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But in news presentation Search selects against age and Social against repeat presentation of links... so updating puts at disadvantage.
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To have individual interlinking but smaller stories would be more advantageous than constantly updating a large one.