How do I remove an article from a newspaper website?
As anyone knowledge on reputation management will testify to, a newspaper article is among the most difficult types of content to deal with, as journalists, editors and website admins working with news publications are often stubborn when approached with removal requests and seldomly agree to remove or alter or obscure the news articles, especially to better the reputation of a person or business.
Using online reputation repair services is the fastest, most effective route to take if spending a few thousand dollars isn’t a huge concern. If you do decide to go this route, make sure your hire an experienced ORM company that deals with negative content regularly and has demonstrable success removing negative newspaper articles for its clients If money is an issue, try the DIY techniques mentioned below.
News Article Removal Approaches:
Contact the administer of the news publication.
Contact the publications editor.
Contact the journalist or author of the story.
Use US Copyright law to file for a DMCA takedown request.
Reach out to Defamation Defenders or another trusted online reputation defending company.
Sue the newspaper for defamation.
Bury the news article on search engine results with online reputation management.
Drawbacks to the above approaches
Because news publications and journalists are protected by first amendment rights and are trying to accurately report on current events, attempts to remove articles from newspaper sites using approaches (1), (2) or (3) above, usually prove unfruitful. In rare cases, news sites will agree to remove an article if it’s about an arrest that’s been expunged, charges that have been dropped, a ruling that’s been overturned, or other similar circumstances.
Tactic (4) works to have news articles removed when the person making the removal request can prove legal copyright ownership of images or other content contained in the news article.
Similarly, approach (5) for getting articles off the internet only works if you can prove legal defamation - i.e. that the content of the article is false , reputation-damaging and resulted in loses.
Approach (6) will not completely remove the article from the newspaper publication, instead, this method uses Reverse SEO to push the negative news article back on Google Search Results.
When executed by experienced online reputation management firms , such as DefamationDefenders.com , reputation X and Optimize Up and others, this method does work to remove the negative search results from plain site and prevents most people from finding the article on conventional web search engines like Google, but it will not make the article completely go away.
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