RE: [backstage] Plain text or easy-to-parse news articles

[Jeremy Stone]

>Is anyone aware of any reason why they do not link directly to the story 
>on the relevant site instead?

The journalists working on the relevant news story pick the related link to 
publish alongside their piece. However they use a tool to help them in this 
task where stories are suggested to them (from thousands of sources). This tool 
is based on a feed of worldwide news sources (online newspapers etc) supplied 
to the BBC by Moreover. BBC News have been using it for a number of years.