Setting Context for News Stories

As always, John Burke has a very interesting take on how news stories can get shorter and punchier and still provide readers with background or context to breaking news.

Newspapers are developing video, infographics, look-up capabilities, and more, to give readers that context; can they continue to develop more resources, or should they seek partnerships and revenue shares with resources that already exist, thereby balancing some of the lost traffic when readers click to the partner site? What if the larger news companies had centralized information-resource departments, feeding resources to member papers?