Today the Associated Press announced that some 500 newsrooms are using its Member Marketplace tool to publish to the Web. In having a look at it online at ReadWriteWeb, I'd agree it looks like an RSS feed that helps a newsroom editor understand what's been aggregated (in this instance, AP content) instead of using a batch of tools to compile and publish.
It's a significant step and I suspect other newsrooms and other tools are en route.
