I've been crosschecking all of Talon's archived news stories, starting with the earliest, with the goal of getting to the present date. It's taking some time.
However, there are some things apparent immediately:
1.) Almost none of their reporters actually report. They mainly rewrite, or quote verbatim, press releases and other news agencies' articles. (When I was in radio news, we used to call this technique "Rip'n'Read" - from the teletype right into the booth.)
2.) Talon could have a serious copyright problem, as they rarely acknowledge that they are ripping off other news agencies' work. After the first week, there is almost no attribution of sources.
3.) The reporters often give bylines like "Baghdad", "Tikrit", or "Qatar", even though they have not ever been to those locations.
The impression that the articles attempt to give is that this is a legitimate news agency, with real writers doing on-site reporting.
I'm listing the news stories by date, giving the name of the reporter, and then giving the source as I was able to determine it via Google. Some reporters, such as "Jeff Gannon" and Bobby Eberle, will be listed simply by their initials.
April 2003
4/1 #1 Jimmy Moore AP story (attributed)
4/1 #2 JG Fox News (Attibuted)
4/1 #3 JG Moscow Times.com (attibuted)
4/1 #4 JG attendance at a rally
4/1 #5 JG UK Mirror (attributed)
4/2 #1 Jimmy Moore MoveOn.Org (attributed)
4/2 #2 Jimmy Moore MikeGallagher.com
4/2 #3 Jimmy Moore can't locate source
4/2 #4 Gregg Bish CENTCOM press statement
4/3 #1 Gregg Bish Radio Free Europe press
4/3 #2 JG Online Chat ("LOL") with eVote
4/3 #3 Gregg Bish and JG Reuters, CENTCOM
4/3 #4 JG WH briefing
[Note: this is the first time that Ari Fleisher or a WH briefing are covered. It's possible that Talon News got WH credentials for the first week they were in operation?]
4/4 #1 BE State Dept. press release
4/4 #2 BE DoD transcript of briefing
4/4 #3 JG coverage of Kerry statements at a rally in NH - couldn't find sources
4/7 #1 Jim Hauser St. Petersburg Times
4/7 #2 JG State Dept. press release
4/7 #3 Stephen Dewey Infoworld
4/7 #4 BE Meet the Press transcript
4/8 #1 BE Joint statement of British/US
4/8 #2 Jim Hauser,Talon News-Baghdad AP
4/8 #3 JG NOW.org
4/8 #4 CPA press release
4/8 #5 BE CENTCOM pr, Fox, UPI
4/9 #1 BE HHS press release
4/9 #2 Doug Patton - this guy actually wrote this original book review himself!
4/9 #3 JG Guardian-UK, AP
4/9 #4 Teresa Martin SkyNews
4/9 #5 BE DoD press briefing transcript
4/10 #1 Sarah Wagner CBO press release
4/10 #2 Mark Messinger Europaworld, State Dept PR
4/10 #3 Lisa Jacobsen Amer. Soc of Newspaper Editors Press release
4/10 #4 JG WH Briefing, Detroit Free Press
4/11 #1 Stephen Dewey Sen testimony transcript
4/11 #2 Walt McKee DoD briefing transcript
4/11 #3 JG AP
4/11 #4 Paul Walfield Fox News
4/14 #1 Stephen Dewey, Talon-Qatar source unk
4/14 #2 Lisa Jacobsen Global Sec. Inst. pr
4/14 #3 JG covered "Rally for America"
4/14 #4 Paul Walfield AP
4/14 #5 JG coverage of rally
4/15 #1 Jim Hauser (Talon-New Orleans) local
4/15 #2 Mark Messinger Bay City News
4/15 #3 BE WH transcript of Bush video address
4/15 #4 Sarah Wagner AP
4/15 #5 JG WH briefing
Please remember that this is just the archived material from the first 2 weeks that Talon was publishing. It looks like "Gannon" has been at the press briefings since Talon opened. I'll continue to slog my way thru these articles. If anyone wants to jump in, or follow up on any of the info so far, please feel free.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/1/164949/7409