Both of these tools allow the user to have all of the news they want, delivered into one place. With Google News, I set up my own personalised news page with the sections of news I wanted being delivered. This allowed me to have U.K News and U.K Sport to be the dominating features of this page, sections of the news which I find msot important. The main problem I encountered with this application is getting more specific areas of news. If I wanted the latest news on my favourite band, for example, there is a way of setting up a section where every story including the band name will be posted. However this means that potentially stories that have nothing to do with what I want can end up in this section, meaning I would have to filter through meaningless stories to find what I want.
With Google Reader, you subscribe to news feeds which get delivered to your page. This means that you can get stories from sites and writers that you are familiar with and can trust. With this tool you get a bit more freedom that Google News and also can get more specific stories. With Google News I struggled to get decent music stories, as it all came under the 'Entertainment' section and again meant more filtering. With Google Reader I was able to subscribe to NME and Drowned In Sound's news sections and was able to get the stories that I would want to read.
Overall I can see how both tools would be useful to a journalist, but due to inevitable inaccuracies in the stories received, I wouldn't dedicate my professional life to them.
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