media - Is blogchina becoming a news agency?

Amy Gu sits on a potential hot story, as she wonders if hosting service BlogChina contemplates becoming a news service, as they broke - they claim - the Shanda buys Sina-stock story. Other internet related services like Wikinews are trying to do the same with volunteers rather than poorly paid journalists.
I guess that in China they could only get away with it, if they do not call it a newswire.