Nieman Journalism Lab: How Tribune Co. plans to rid itself of SEO-killing duplicate content
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 15:41
"[Tribune director of search engine optimization Brent Payne] said he’s readying a plan to rid the Tribune Co. of duplicate content. 'The goal will be to always have only a single URL for a piece of content across all of our sites,' he told me in an email. For example, when The Los Angeles Times writes a story, it exists, of course, at latimes.com. But when The Chicago Tribune picks up the piece, the current system creates a duplicate of the article with a chicagotribune.com URL. Under Payne’s plan, Tribune readers would instead visit the Times domain."
Newspapers & Technology: Pubs bulk up with ‘super blogs’
Monday, 6 July 2009, 20:10
"ChicagoNow, and a similar initiative also unveiled last month by The Miami Herald, reflects newspapers'continuing quest to redefine themselves as essential information providers, regardless of the medium."
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.
Readership Institute: United Airlines story shows how software combined with human error can have frightening results
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 09:28
Rich Gordon pulls together the story of how a six-year old archive story appearing on a local paper's site managed to damage United Airlines's share price this week.
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."
InformationWeek: Microsoft Blog: Old News Is Not Good News
Friday, 12 September 2008, 07:18
Dave Methvin on the United Airlines storY: "Hold on a minute! The whole reason to keep a person in the loop is to apply the kind of reasoning that an automated news-bot like Google's can't ever hope to use. The Post generously referred to this incident's errant person as a "reporter," but I think that's an insult to most reporters. This person had the job of searching for bankruptcy news. Is it unreasonable they should know some basic details about United Airlines, a major company that emerged from its real bankruptcy in 2006?"
Editor & Publisher: Tribune Co. — Don’t Blame Our Papers For United Story Snafu
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 07:37
"Neither the South Florida Sun-Sentinel nor any other Tribune Co. posted the six-year-old Chicago Tribune story that triggered a panic over United Airlines stock, Tribune Co. said late Monday."
SunSentinel.com: United Airlines
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 07:09
Lots of clearly marked dates appear on the United Airlines landing page used by the Tribune newspapers… What's going on?
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. "
FT.com: United shares plunge on old news story
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 06:58
"A six-year-old Chicago Tribune story on United’s 2002 bankruptcy filing, spotted on a Google search on Monday morning by an investment newsletter, triggered a massive sell-off of the carrier’s shares until trading was halted. … Google said a link to the story appeared on Sunday on a [South Florida Sun-Sentinel] web page listing the business section’s most viewed stories, but without any dateline referring to 2002. "
Thursday, 10 July 2008, 22:21
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"Some 30 Tribune editorial employees have been appointed … to reimagine their paper. These committees take seriously the idea of giving quality some room to breathe, and they’re looking hard at Britain’s Guardian for inspiration."
Friday, 21 March 2008, 12:32
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… including Rupert Murdoch.
Monday, 15 October 2007, 13:36
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"Gannett Co. said Monday it joined with Tribune Co. to publish and syndicate a weekly edition of USA Today outside the United States. … the eight-page broadsheet called USA Today Abroad … will contain primarily feature stories from the previous week’
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 09:24
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"Angst over how to best work with Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and America Online has become the hot-button issue in the newspaper business…"
