Sharing Stories?

by: Jessica Hamell
Isn’t the point of having three different news papers to compete against each other? The Miami Herald, the Sun-Sentinel and The Palm Beach Post announced that they were going to start sharing basic news stories. This kind of threw me off, three different papers would run the same story with the same facts. The good thing about not sharing stories is that each paper would have different facts and information to give the readers. Each paper also has a different demographic to please so they should write there stories differently.
The editors said they would still “preserve” the competition between the three papers but I don’t get how that would be possible. I understand that each paper would still have different stories but the articles about what was going on around their area would be the same.
Two of the Three papers I think would lose business just for the simple fact why buy three different papers when you can read the same story in all of them and still have others that catch your eye. Think about it for a second, why share stories?