Newser.com launches

Using a mix of human/editorial curation and algorithy-driven methods, the news aggregation site Newser.com has been launched by Patrick Spain, CEO of Highbeam, Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair media columnist, and Caroline Miller, former editor-in-chief of New York Magazine.

The mission of the site is to “quickly learn more about the most important and most talked about news stories each day, as well as to dig a bit deeper on news topics that interest you,” according to Paid Content.

In terms of software methodology, “Newser’s methodology measures the ubiquity of coverage by the top-ranked 100 English-language news sites, the prominence with which those sites feature the stories and the popularity of a given story with readers,” and then editors jump in to summarize the story.