Sharing - and caring ?

BBC News may be on the verge of sharing information - internally. A new website has been developed over the past year which allows journalists to share tips, leads, pictures, video and audio - rather pompously called The Journalism Portal.

Here's a link to a 22-page White Paper, proclaiming the system's benefits for all - speed, simplicity, maximising the organisation's strength across countries and genres - and, sensibly (in these days of Delivering Quality First), reducing duplication.

However its proponents make it clear - it only works if everybody plays, and there's no mention, at the moment, of Today producers and Newsnight editors sharing their intentions with the wider BBC in advance.