Comments on: The Google/China hacking case: How many news outlets do the original reporting on a big story?

By: iphone

iphone — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:05:00 +0000

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nice posts

By: What will 2011 bring for journalism? Clay Shirky predicts widespread disruptions for syndication | Fontes Magazine | Versão Beta

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:49:33 +0000

[...] Stray pointed out in “The Google/China Hacking Case” and Nick Carrpointed out in “Google in the Middle,” the numerator of organizations [...]

By: Jonathan Stray » The editorial search engine

Jonathan Stray » The editorial search engine — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:40:05 +0000

[...] Last year I counted the percentage of news outlets did their own reporting on one big story, and found that only 13 of 121 stories listed on Google News did not simply copy information found elsewhere. [...]

By: NA

NA — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:16:43 +0000

If you focus your investigation only on Indian Papers and web-sites; you will realize how little of the reporting that they do is based on Original sources. While I do not have numbers to back up now, not more than 15% of the reporting is by their “reporters”, the rest can be divided from news sources such as AP, reuters. And equally the other half is reporting stolen directly/in-directly from NYT, WSJ, Guardian and so on.

You do not have to reinvent the wheel everytime, but I feel that the original reporters need to get more “prominance”.

By: Jonathan Stray » A computational journalism reading list

Jonathan Stray » A computational journalism reading list — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:30:14 +0000

[...] If we had information provenance tools that worked across a spectrum of media outlets and feed types (web, social media, etc.) it would be much cheaper to do the sort of information ecosystem studies that Pew and others occasionally undertake. This would lead to a much better understanding of who does original reporting. [...]

By: What will 2011 bring for journalism? Clay Shirky predicts widespread disruptions for syndication » Nieman Journalism Lab

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:04:00 +0000

[...] Jonathan Stray pointed out in “The Google/China Hacking Case” and Nick Carr pointed out in “Google in the Middle,” the numerator of [...]

By: The Difference Between Blogging and Journalism « 5 minutes with Joe

The Difference Between Blogging and Journalism « 5 minutes with Joe — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:57:08 +0000

[...] news site. However, Nieman Journalism Lab has done something a bit more scientific study: “The Google/China hacking case: How many news outlets do the original reporting on a big story?” by Jonathan Stray. The story, broken by the New York Times in mid-February 2010, traced [...]

By: Cho Yung

Cho Yung — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:13:09 +0000

Interesting facts. The comment made on Lanxiang school is true.

By: Internet Strategy for News Organisations » Blog Archive » Session 2: Digital Storytelling

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:09:09 +0000

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By: Internet Strategy for News Organisations » Blog Archive » Course Syllabus

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 05:59:52 +0000

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By: Google CEO Trashes Bloggers » Podcasting News

Google CEO Trashes Bloggers » Podcasting News — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:19:49 +0000

[...] media is woefully inefficient. The Nieman Journalism Lab recently found that 9 out of ten mainstream news stories are copied. Nobody’s going to pay [...]

By: Bezahlcontent 2 : jens weinreich

Bezahlcontent 2 : jens weinreich — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:41:10 +0000

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By: Clemens Gleich

Clemens Gleich — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:40:00 +0000

Great work, well compiled for giving it to those ignorant of the inner workings of the news biz.

I have been working in this business for a long time and all your findings match my experiences. If someone has a story, we must have it too – on our site. But we don’t have much time, so let’s just translate it, rewrite it and add a quote from the press release, if we can find it.

The big problem with this is that an error gets repeated around the world until its false content is as good as true. And the old “check at least two sources” doesn’t work in a time where 90 percent of these so-called sources have just copied the stuff, too.

By: Verso un sistema ibrido dell’ informazione, quale equilibrio economico? | LSDI

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:45:19 +0000

[...] sono ancora in massima parte prodotte e fatte circolare dalle testate storiche, nazionali (vedi studio Neiman Lab) e locali (vedi rapporto). Non solo, ma la discussione che avviene su web, blog e media sociali, è [...]

By: Il futuro dei giornali è già scritto su internet « EJO – European Journalism Observatory

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:14:57 +0000

By: Cacofonía en la Red: poca información original en Google News « Periodismo Global: la otra mirada

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:45:46 +0000

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By: Linheraptor vs the international media « Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:06:04 +0000

[...] PR stuff done for Linheraptor, but after previous experiences with the press (and in the light of this recent, and superb, article) I am interested and intrigued as to just how these stories get circulated and written up to appear [...]

By: Alisa Miller

Alisa Miller — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:15:05 +0000

Great article! I tweeted about it, check out my post at:

http://globalmatterspost.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-many-news-organizations-really-and.html

By: Phill Dolby » Blog Archive » BLOG: Only 11 % of news found in Google had original content

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:03:53 +0000

[...] to Neinman Journalism Lab, only 11 per cent of 121 stories listed by Google about the Chinese hacking incident, actually [...]

By: Phill Dolby » Blog Archive » BLOG: Only 11 % of news found in Google had original content

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:31:44 +0000

[...] to Neinman Journalism Lab, only 11 per cent of stories listed about the Chinese Google hacking incident from various outlets [...]

By: Cuando las webs solo replican notas de otros | Clases de Periodismo

Cuando las webs solo replican notas de otros | Clases de Periodismo — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:30:50 +0000

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By: News on Google is 11% original. Possibly | Pj News| Latest Daily News About World News, Business, Tech and Entertainment

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:11:25 +0000

[...] Nieman Journalism Lab has investigated how much of the news that can be found on Google is actually real reporting as opposed to news repeating the reporting of others. It found that 11% contained original reporting. [...]

By: Kopieren wird belohnt « Kulturkampf

Kopieren wird belohnt « Kulturkampf — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:52:14 +0000

[...] Nieman Journalism Lab, ein Journalismus-Forschungsprojekt der Havard Universität, hat Online-Berichterstattung unter [...]

By: Arjun Ram

Arjun Ram — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:18:14 +0000

Most of the Indian sources that you point out seem to syndicate from IANS & PTI, which are news agencies. But your larger point is well taken.

The problem is that there isnt a service that tracks what journalists report on. Some sort of a reporterRank. This would go a long way of running leaner, meaner organizations that crave a niche for themselves and are profitable!

By: 9 Out Of 10 Mainstream News Stories Are Copied » Podcasting News

9 Out Of 10 Mainstream News Stories Are Copied » Podcasting News — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:41:59 +0000

[...] are some stats, via the Nieman Journalism Lab, that may put that criticism in [...]

By: Il n’y a que 11% d’informations originales sur Google | Pour ceux qui aiment le Net

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:30:28 +0000

[...] la question que s’est posé Jonathan Stray du Nieman Journalism Lab de Harvard . Il a passé au crible les articles du 18 février 2010 sur le même [...]

By: The Google/China hacking case: How did the story flow through Chinese-language media? » Nieman Journalism Lab

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:02:04 +0000

[...] KONG — A few weeks ago, Jonathan Stray looked at how news is reported and repeated in the new news ecosystem by tracking a single international story — the revelation that last [...]

By: Sharun

Sharun — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:24:44 +0000

If original reporting can be ranked on the uniqueness (and possibly “quality”) of the quotes, as seems to be the basis of this analysis, I wonder how long it’s going to be, before we get “orignal content” stats/rating/score beside the story on Google News (or some other aggregator). An automated process should be able to reproduce the first four things you highlight, and it would be very useful for users to see it.

It’s quite possible they already do this behind the scenes. Even if the stats dont show up and they push traffic towards orignal content, its a good things for everyone including the news orgs.

But having said that, all the pleonastic content on the internet does have a purpose, it allows the content to flow far and wide, through mindless replication. Thanks to which I have landed here. Thanks too for the great post!

By: Le vere notizie? Arrivano da pochi e selezionati giornali « EJO – European Journalism Observatory

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:38:45 +0000

[...] Marco Bardazzi, corrispondente dagli Stati Uniti per l’Ansa, commentando uno studio del Nieman Lab, autore Jonathan Stray, studio in cui si analizza una notizia internazionale per vedere quante [...]

By: Curation, news in Manga and original research | The Evolving Newsroom

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:23:18 +0000

[...] Jonathan Stray on NiemanLab checks out the origins of a big news story and how many news outlets did any original reporting on it. No conclusions to be drawn from one [...]