The people at Publish2.com are on to something with the notion of “link journalism”:

Link journalism is linking to reporting or sources on the web to enhance, complement, or add more context to original reporting. Link journalism can also be a topical news aggregation, with links to interesting and important stories from any source on the web.

More important, they have created a tool for sharing and exchanging links which it will be interesting to test.

(tip: spot.us blog).