[larubbio]

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.

[vinhboy]

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.

[jbpetersen]

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.

[putsteadywere]

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