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Comment by vinhboy | Hacker News Reader

I want to join the NYTimes and build a "chronicle" feature. I hate how news stories develop overtime, but there is nothing to "chronicle" the story from beginning to end.

Linking to related stories is a temporary fix, but a standard timeline would be better. It should even motivate people to contribute to "follow-ups" on stories. Report what happened to the affected parties, where are they now, etc...

This is in the interest of keeping people informed and engaged. Instead of endlessly chasing "breaking news"

Take the "Oroville Dam" story for example. I would love to be able to subscribe to a timeline of updates as more unfold. A year from now, will there be a story about how the dam was fixed? How government money was spent? etc...

Or whatever happened to those girls who were locked in that guy's basement? Whatever happened to them? Where are they now?

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I had a similar idea, but wanted to build it outside of a single news organisation. Basically a news aggregator, but it would detect when different articles are about the same topic and try to tell if the newer article added anything to the story. This aggregation system would then track public interest in a story over time (based on clicks) along with media interest (based on new stories)

I also wanted to add in user, publication and reporter 'leanings' by having a mechanism where users could say that they thought a story was left/right/neutral. The act of voting would count as a push having the affect of slightly moving the publication and reporter in one direction and the voter in another. I would then use an ELO type metric so a user who was very far in one direction wouldn't have the same impact as a user more in the center.

That's actually awesome. There is a lot of stigma around "duplicate" posts. But I think in the context of showing different angles of the same story, that would be cool.

I'd use this tool. I would like to have the metrics exposed - I'd like to see my polarity, etc.

I'm waiting to see something like this turn up. Props to you if you're the one who finally goes ahead and makes it.

I've taken to keeping handy a link to "Current events" on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events) for this reason.

I've been toying with this very idea for quite some time. I don't like that I have to seek out a complete story instead of being able to see links that form a narrative in a single place. I also wish I could easily see different sources of the same information to compare the perspective.

> I also wish I could easily see different sources of the same information to compare the perspective.

That's a really good idea. Maybe we can all collab and make this.

I'm definitely open to that.

Do you think the 'Series' format of storytelling released by Medium.com today meets your expectations of a "chronicle" feature?

https://blog.medium.com/welcome-to-series-a-new-type-of-stor...

vox tried something with their 'stacks' a few years ago, but have been focusing less on them recently:

http://digiday.com/media/two-years-vox-com-reconsiders-card-...

This is essential!!

I recently purchased the domain cnnisfake.news to expose all the times the media releases a fake story. This thread and posts have inspired me to get it working!!

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