with the rapid development of Internet and information technologies, the channels that people receive information become more diverse. In addition to the traditional paper publications, news can now be published via the Internet in various forms such as web site, e-mail, PDA, and cellular phones. On the other hand, as more news companies merge to form a larger company, news production companies strive to save production manpower in order to remain competitive. Therefore, an automation system for news production that can speed up the production process and allow a news source to be repurposed to another publishing platform becomes crucial in organization and process evolution.

        The web publishing paradigm has fundamentally changed the news publishing process. However, for traditional forms of publishing such as printed newspaper, the various roles in the news production process and the concept of gatekeeping still remain crucial for high-quality news publishing. the reporter then proposes them to a clue review meeting to decide the interviews to be conducted in order to determine the news contents. After an interview, the reporter writes the news articles in time and submitted them to a news editor or a news center director for content review. An accepted article will be stored in the database for further editorial processes such as order and layout editing according to the target publishing form. The major rigorous gatekeeping efforts, called rganization level gatekeeping, are kept as part of the production process when the editor reviews the clue and article proposals. In such a process, close and formal collaboration among its team members is crucial for high quality news articles.