Cool. Is GoLocal still around? -----Original Message----- From: <wnndl@googlegroups.com> Sent: Oct 31, 2022 10:12 PM To: wnn <wnndl@googlegroups.com> Subject: [media] followup to a Q I asked yrs ago about a "Patch" competitor
Since people here know just about everything about news media (and when we had Tomalhe and, sniff, sniff, and sniff, it was closer to 99.999%), I had asked if anyone recalled the announcement about a similar service, but competitor to, "Patch" with its hyper-local coverage. No one here recalled it. Today, I saw a reference in an NPR story discussing "zombie" (their term) newspapers that pop up in lots of neighborhoods during elections... A fascinating story which I suspect many people here already knew about, but NPR digs in [a]. Anyway, they also were kind enough to verify my recollection: " Back in 2012, Timpone created a service called Journatic, used briefly by mainstream newspapers, that relied upon a core of reporters and an army of freelancers to try to report on real estate sales, school lunches, city council meetings, high school sports and other events. Timpone also promised state-of-the art artificial intelligence. The service's credibility was dinged when This American Life revealed not just its use of bots but content mill workers far from the regions the newspapers served. They were often based in Asia, writing under fake bylines." [a] https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1131422576/republican-conservative-democrat-media-news-newspapers-illinois-proft-timpone _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dan...@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/c23e1354-f1d6-c90f-ac52-e04446898da1%40earthlink.net.
