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You may be interested in my site, Newslines [1], which addresses most of the problems you mention here. One of our core principles is "the web is not paper" which, in our case, means that the traditional newspaper article is broken up into its component "news events". For example, in a traditional newspaper, a story about Bill Cosby will mention not only the most recent news, but will also include older news or information about Cosby to fill out the article. The result is that each newspaper article repeats a lot of information from previous articles, and because of the long-form format, each individual article cannot be sorted or filtered to see the latest news, oldest news, or some subset of news about a topic. See our Bill Cosby line [2] and use the filter and sort functions in the header bar for different views. You will also notice that each news event has its own embedded multimedia content, and being ordered by time, it's easy to say the latest news updates.

[1] http://newslines.org/ [2] http://newslines.org/bill-cosby/