I'm watching The Courier-Journal handle late-breaking news: One of its biggest local employers, General Electric, is reportedly starting to auction its home appliance business, which employs nearly 5,000 well-paid workers south of Louisville.
The C-J story now online hasn't advanced crucial facts much since I last checked in: It continues to rely on the original Wall Street Journal story, which appears to have been first with the news.
But the C-J's story now carries a staff byline, and looks like a solid write-thru. "We just don't comment on this kind of speculation," Kim Freeman, spokeswoman for the Louisville-based Consumer & Industrial division, told the C-J, when asked about the WSJ report.
Finally, not to be a back-seat driver, but: This is definitely a case where one of your bloggers could be getting the essential news out faster, while also gathering quotes from readers and other sources.
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