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Reporter’s Notebook: Bogus Internet story just won’t go away

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

mtstandard.com - By John Grant Emeigh - Feb. 19 (Fact Check) - There’s a bogus story about Butte that’s been circulating on the Internet for the past five or six years which, like an annoying attack of the hiccups, just won’t seem to go away. It’s some crazy yarn — wrapped up to look like a newspaper article — about an 11-year-old girl who shoots two “illegal aliens” who broke into her Butte residence while she was home alone. Pretty gripping stuff. But it’s complete cow manure.

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How Drudge Has Stayed on Top

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Carr - May. 15 (News Report) - The Drudge Report, a 14-year-old site — a relic by Web standards — conceived and operated by Matt Drudge...is now more powerful in driving news than the half-billion folks on Facebook. (According to the study, Facebook accounted for 3.3 percent of the referrals to news sites, less than half as many as generated by The Drudge Report.)

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Google Announce Its Paid Content Model for Media May Be Rolled Out This Year

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

bulldogreporter.com - Jun. 20 (News) - Rupert Murdoch isn't the only one diligently working on developing a paid-content model for media publishers. Google, which had hinted for nearly a year now that it was working on building some sort of paid content system for publishers, is reportedly set to launch such a system by year-end. According to a report in Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Google is now reaching out to publishers to get them to sign up for the system, which it is calling Newspass.

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Google Computes News Quality

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

InformationWeek - By Thomas Claburn - Nov. 16 (News Report) - A recently filed patent application suggests that Google is taking steps to promote news produced by major media companies on Google News. Whenever a newspaper dies, Google turns up on the list of suspects. The evidence of Google's involvement tends to be sketchy. A close examination of the crime scene typically points to a different villain -- the classified revenue killer known as Craigslist, parasitic news sites that siphon potential visitors, declining subscription and ad revenue, management that can't adapt, or the hyper-competition created by the Internet's ability to collapse distance and divert attention. But Google nonetheless has been forced to defend itself. In May, Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search products and user experience, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet that Google is the hand that feeds media companies, channeling over one billion clicks every month to online publishers through Google Search and Google News. She suggested that Wikipedia, with its constantly updated articles, might offer a better model for journalism in the Internet age than a series of separate articles. And she proposed that online publishers might be failing their readers by presenting them with Web pages that lack engaging social features.

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Metrobus Strikes Jogger in Northwest

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By James Hohmann - Sep. 03 (News) - House Staffer Critically Injured

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Can Microsoft's Bing Take a Bite out of Google?

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tom McNichol - Aug. 01 (News Analysis) - The undisputed Sultan of Search, a company whose name has become a verb, Google currently accounts for about 65% of all online searches in the U.S, according to comScore Inc. But Google's comfortable dominance may be in for its most serious challenge in years with the debut of Bing, Microsoft's new search engine.

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Garrett County Inmate, 87, Found Dead

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Martin Weil - Mar. 21 (News Report) - An 87-year-old man was found dead Friday at the county jail in Garrett County, Md., where he was serving an 18-month sentence, authorities said.

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