I think it's important that we have a news-report feature on AO where members can post news and others can report on it. I thought JP implemented something like this when he re-built AO last year but if so I haven't seen it in active use.

Too many news stories are being copied and pasted to the general chat forum, if I wanted to find news, I'd look to a specific news site like BBC News or AO if we get a news forum.