I don't know about this one way or the other, but it seems this can't be "news" because they claim to discover the missing link every few years.
There isn't a missing link, there are lots of "missing" links, and they're discovered on a fairly regular basis. That's the funny thing about evolution: the more we look the more we find transitional fossils. This find fills a particular gap reasonably far back in the human origins tree, and it will be interesting to see what we can find from subsequent finds.
"I don't know about this one way or the other, but it seems this can't be "news" because they claim to discover the missing link every few years."
That's because everytime you find one missing link between two known genus/species/subspecies, you create two new (although smaller) gaps in the fossil record. At first you have a gap between fossils A and B. Then you find fossil C that links the two. Now you have a gap between fossils A and C, and another gap between fossils C and B. The only way not to have any more missing links between two species would be to find a fossil from every generation between the two.
Here's what you're missing: In a chain of evolutionary sequences, there are more than just one link. There's no such thing as "the" link, or "the missing" link, there are multiple stages of transition, and it's possible to find one of them in 1995, a different one in 2002, etc.
The transitional sequence from our common ancestors with the other apes to modern humans has long been fleshed out to a very good degree, contrary to what the anti-evolutionists would have you believe. But with each passing year, yet more "intermediates of intermediates" are being discovered, like this one, which refine the transitional sequence to an ever more fine-grained degree.
And then there's the overwhelming DNA evidence...
Except to the willfully ignorant (see my tagline) any "debate" over the common ancestry of man and the other apes has long been over, it has been established beyond any reasonable doubt, via huge amounts of multiple independent lines of cross-confirming evidence.