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“Most of Daywatch’s links still will point to the Tribune,” Meyerson’s boss, innovations editor Bill Adee, explained in a note to the Trib editorial staff in early July, “but we think we can increase its value to the audience by providing one-stop ‘News for Chicagoans.’” He went on: “I long have wanted to experiment with aggregating news. That means linking off to other sites. It seems to work well for Google News, yes?” Not to mention, he went on, for Romenesko and Huffington Post.
But if readers think of it as chivalrous, that’s OK too. “Some people get it more than others,” says Meyerson, who’s posting public reaction. “When does the merger get announced?” wondered a reader who’d spotted a link to the Sun-Times‘s Carol Marin. “If you’re going to fill Daywatch with Sun-Times material,” someone else said, “I guess I can just read the Sun-Times and disconnect totally from the Trib.” But to Meyerson’s delight a third reader responded, “I love the fact that you refer to other publications . . . very classy . . . reminds me of ‘Miracle on 42nd Street’!”
