Sunday, February 02, 2014

Surefire way to cut costs

Publishing "mogul" A. William "Bill" Allen has figured out how to cut costs dramatically.

According to Craig Silverman on Poynter.com, Allen Total Media saves costs by putting fake bylines on digital stories his employees assemble from press releases and stories lifted verbatim from newspapers and wire services. 

To make the stories look legitimate, Allen's folk add typos.

Allen's firm purchased 19 newspapers in Alaska and plans to revert them to digital . . . with a little help from other news sources?

Read the article at http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/237923/in-pennsylvania-and-alaska-a-publisher-takes-infringement-to-another-level/
  

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