Slate Replaces Newspaper Roundup With News Updates

Is no one reading the papers anymore? Slate is retiring "Today's Papers," one of the original aggregators of the Web, 12 years after it started its beloved once-a-day summary of the nation's news pages. In its place comes a new recap of the news, one that acknowledges that the news cycle has, well, sped up quite considerably since "Today's Papers" started in 1997. That is why the "Slatest," the name of the new feature that comes online Monday morning, will collect the world's news three times a day. Jack Shafer, the media columnist for Slate, observed that the news cycle had three distinct parts: an overnight shift led by newspapers, a daytime phase when other news media entities react to the overnight news, and an afternoon phase when "the day's news events break and are digested."