BBC does it as well. I've seen on a handful of other news sites (NY Times, CNN, NBC) for some events. Forums are a great source, too, when you get parties that

BBC does it as well. I've seen on a handful of other news sites (NY Times, CNN, NBC) for some events. Forums are a great source, too, when you get parties that are interested in aggregating news sources [1] for the community. Sports and elections use the format very frequently — these have the advantage that significant infrastructure can be set up in advance, whereas breaking news live blogging is more adhoc, and often constitutes just updating the text of a posted article on a website. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/20288q/comprehensive_timeline_malaysia_airlines_flight/ http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/20288q/comprehensive_t...