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BuzzFeed has gone Fortune and its Original Trust Content one better.

Instead of cranking out BuzzFeed-like content for corporate-owned media, the publication will teach you how to draft stories like the pros.

That’s right. You too can write scintillating headlines like “15 Reasons Taylor Swift Might Be a Cat” or “27 Better Ways to Eat Ramen.”

It’s another form of journalists reaching into corporate pockets with the value proposition, “We can help with that burdensome chore called content development.”

When a helicopter crashed in a densely populated part of London around 8am today, next to one of the busiest trainlines in Europe and a large bus station, the news was always going to be broken, within seconds, by members of the public on Twitter, armed with camera phones.

Twitter user Craig Jenner was one of the first to put a picture on Twitter which was shared far and wide.

What happened next is indicative of the way the media are increasingly playing catch-up on such stories, moving from reporting to aggregating (or curating, if you must) - images, eye-witness accounts and videos. Journalists were asking to use the picture with a credit and were trying to get Jenner on the phone...