Nick Holmes (Binary Law) has posted an interesting piece about the declining value of legal news on the web…
Using the example of layoffs at Linklaters last week – he writes
Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 is the guy when it comes to commenting on the new landscape for news publishing. Back in May last year he posted about The declining value of redundant news content on the web.
I’ll illustrate his point with a UK legal news example. Here are just a few headlines from the legal press stories generated this week when Linklaters announced that it will cut up to 120 lawyers and 150 business support staff.
Linklaters to lose 270 jobs as ‘magic circle’ regroups (Times)
Linklaters review set to claim up to 270 jobs (Legal Week)
Linklaters announces job cuts (Law Society Gazette)
Google linklaters 120 lawyers and 150 business and you’ll find at least 50 more variations of the same story.
Read the full post at http://www.binarylaw.co.uk/index.php/2009/01/30/the-declining-value-of-legal-news/
Although we do in principle agree with Nick we do believe that with the surfeit of legal news these days aggregators aren’t always the best solution. Human editors specialising in a segement(s) of the legal industry will we thnk still find favour with time poor readers
