CNET News.com: Images: Top Web news gaffes
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 10:22
… including recent online news goofs like the undated story about United Airlines' (2002) bankruptcy, the Steve Jobs obituary, and the LA Times calling Hillary as Obama's VP. Oops.
Washington Post: 2002’s News, Yesterday’s Sell-Off
Friday, 12 September 2008, 07:20
"The light-speed wipeout is a powerful reminder of how quickly bad information can spread via the Internet to a trigger-happy Wall Street that is willing to dump millions in stock before checking the facts. It exposed how Bloomberg's influential brand name is vulnerable to bogus content — the old article was posted to a Bloomberg subscription service by a Florida investment adviser, one of Bloomberg's many "third-party content-providers."
Forbes.com: How A Botched Web Story Wiped Out UAL’s Shares
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 07:05
"It was unclear whether the old story appeared on the front of the Tribune's site, as some initial reports indicated. Tribune says it did not. Regardless, investors who found the story would have a hard time knowing it was six years old. No date of original publication is listed on the story page on either chicagotribune.com or sunsentinel.com. The only date on the pages was today's: Sept. 8, 2008. "
Sunday, 4 May 2008, 08:13
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Profile of the new Thomson Reuters: "Devin Wenig … who will run Reuters, shrugs off Bloomberg as yesterday’s story. His real worries: Google (GOOG) or ’some kid in Silicon Valley.""
Friday, 19 October 2007, 17:53
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PC Magazine has a slideshow of websites that are disaggregating the bundle of news that US metropolitan dailies used to provide. The situation’s a bit different in the UK, but it’s worth looking at.
