A guy who gamed Help A Reporter Out

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"From The New York Times, to ABC News, to HuffingtonPost.com and everyone in between, nearly 30,000 members of the media have quoted HARO sources in their stories," the Help A Reporter Out web site says on its front page. There's no mention of Ryan Holiday, who used the site to dupe major news organizations. Holiday writes about his escapades in CJR. More from Forbes and the Poynter Institute.

July 30, 2012

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