Eight days ago Ozy announced it was shutting down after reports that the news site bought traffic, overstated its cable deals, and at one point even had its Chief Operating Officer impersonate a YouTube executive during a phone call with investors.
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Bought Web Traffic and A Fake YouTube Executive: the Spectacular Failure of Ozy
The American media company Ozy “boasted of a large audience for its general interest website, its newsletters and its videos,” remembers the New York Times, calling it “a Gen X dream of what millennial media ought to be: earnest, policy-focused, inclus…
Some 9/11 News Coverage is Lost. Blame Adobe Flash
CNN reports that “Some of the most iconic 9/11 news coverage is lost. Blame Adobe Flash.”
Journalism is often considered the first draft of history, but what happens when that draft is written on a software program that becomes obsolete?
Adobe ending…
Snopes.com Co-Founder Accused of Copying from Other Sites Without Attribution
The co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes has been accused of publishing articles that are too accurate: copying text from other more authorative web sites.
Snopes.com describes them as “sentences or paragraphs from various news sites pasted…