The false bylines appeared over some of its output sold to major US newspapers but it denied the practice was widespread so that the local news content provider whose payroll includes offshore staff. A journatic which gathers the minutiae of community news such as real estate deals, high-school honor rolls and police incidents said a handful of pseudonyms had ended up on websites of three of its clients publications.
The Executive Brian Timpone and Journatics founder said to AFP by telephone from his home near Chicago that it is very minimal and it is being portrayed as something more widespread because it’s not. The Poynter Institute, a media watchdog, following up on a report on US public radio says that on its websites that dozens of fake bylines had appeared in some of the nation’s best known daily newpapers. The journatic which gathers the minutiae of community news such as real estate deals, highschools honor rolls and police incidents who gathers handful of pseudonyms had ended up on websites of three of its client publication.
The journatic’s founder and chief executive Brian Timpone told the AFP by telephone from his home near chicago said that it’s very minimal and its being portrayed as something more widespread because it’s not. The Poynter Institute said that on its websites that dozens of fake bylines had appeared in some of the nations best known daily newspapers. They quoted editors of the Chicago Sun-Times and GateHouse Media, owner of dozens of small-town newspapers as saying they would no longer use Journatic whose payroll includes offshore staff in the Philippines.
It is important that their news report, no matter the source is accurate and credible, this is stated to the editors of the Chicago Sun-Times and GateHouse Media, owner of dozens of small-town newspapers as saying they would no longer use Journatic whose payroll includes offshore staff in the Philippines, however Timpone whose six-year old outfit generates tens of thousands of news items for its clients per month said only three incidents of the Chicago Tribune. He said that a small number also appeared on the Houston Chronicle and the San Francisco Chronicle websites.
He said that they are small, very fast-growing company. They are not perfect and they were not perfect there. In European publications using the pseudonyms is not usual. In the United States with its ethos of objective news gatherings, they are seen as a serious breach of ethics. Timpone stated in Journatic’s case, they were used on its sister service BlockShopper which trawls public records to find out who bought or sold what house at what price so that to protect its writers from legal action while displaying a byline that would get its stories to appear in a google search.
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http://www.interaksyon.com/business/36552/outsourcing-to-philippines-us-news-provider-rattles-american-press-with-fake-bylines
