Archive for April 2013
Irony? Guardian piece promising “there can be no turning back now” removed “because it was launched too early”
Three or four times per year, a Google Alert lands in my inbox revealing a story in The Guardian that has been removed because it broke an embargo. One of those arrived today, so I tweeted a link to the story.
While looking at that page, Emily Lakdawalla noticed that a number of the related stories — presumably generated automatically — were also “removed.” One in particular caught my attention.
The headline said: Read the rest of this entry »
New York Times breaks PNAS wine-climate change study embargo
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has lifted the embargo early on a paper on the effects of grape growing on biodiversity after a New York Times story went live hours before the scheduled embargo.
Here’s a note that went out to the journal’s media list earlier today: Read the rest of this entry »