http://indepth.news.sky.com/InDepth/topic/Barack_Obama

There are many more like this which you find via stories or the home page.

As you know news organisations find the concept of outbound links very difficult to stomach, so this is pretty revolutionary stuff! It will be interesting to see whether the concept spreads.

Disclosure: Jeff introduced Sky to Daylife (though we were already looking at the idea). So thanks for that, too.

“whenever a big story breaks involving Loudoun County, the Post typically publishes it on WashingtonPost.com without a link to LoudounExtra.com. That deprives LoudounExtra of potential traffic. Nor does the Washington Post’s own dedicated Loudoun County page send visitors directly to its online sibling. In September, when Time Warner Inc.’s AOL unit announced it was moving its headquarters from Dulles, Va. to New York, the Post linked to the story on LoudounExtra.com for a couple hours before moving the story back to its own site. That window of promotion fueled the Loudoun site’s best traffic day to date…”

This is ridiculous. The Washington Post won’t even link between its *own* properties!

bob wyman

You will be astonished to learn that a journalistic format as stodgy and traditional as can be, the network nightly newscast, got link happy last night. Brian Williams’ closing feature on NBC Nightly News was an animal story — women prison inmates training puppies to be service dogs for PTSD veterans — that he had seen as streaming video on The New York Times‘ site. In the old days, network reporters would have used the Times coverage as a lead and re-reported it before airing the story. Instead NBC aired the NYT package complete with its giant gothic T dingbat in the lower right. In its online manifestation, interestingly, msn.com streams the video itself, complete with NYT logo, in its NBC Nightly News and does not send viewers to the Times’ site.