Mediagazer: [UPDATED] Journatic is caught using fake bylines (Jim Romenesko)

3:40 AM ET, July 1, 2012

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Anna Tarkov / Poynter:

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Jim Romenesko:

[UPDATED] Journatic is caught using fake bylines — and interviews Journatic writer-editor Ryan Smith, who reveals that the company uses fake bylines for its Filipino writers — or did, until “TAL” blew the whistle on them. — Smith tells TAL's Sarah Koenig that “when I ended up looking …

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