Thinking of when I worked for a Newspaper ... there are two thing that bug me (actually there are many things but 2 will do for now).
Back in the day we had a line printer in the operators room that logged all the wire feed stories coming in from Reuters. Editorial had their own printer but they could be relied on to stuff it up so ours was a reliable backup. The stories were short just a paragraph or two at most an were just factual reporting - no reporter "value" add. But I could see more news go by every shift than Google news gives me in a week. I miss those feeds.
The other thing was that I was eventually the maintainer for the electronic library and that had a story query mechanism that worked. I was so disappointed that web searches have never gained a fraction of the capability of a proper text query system. For a time google had a "search within your previous query" mechanism but that would get confused and never worked reliably so they quietly dropped it. A proper web text query engine would be so powerful
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