This is a regularly updated post tracking all media coverage.

Mainstream newspapers:

1. Boston Globe's Brainiac: Wiki-democracy (blog?)

Online news organizations:

1. Radar Online: Ode to Wikipedia Riddled with Errors
2. CNet: Wikipedia 101, Check your sources - 3 comments
3. The Inquirer: Wikipedia 'expert' lied about qualifications
4. Slashdot: Academic Credentials and Wikiality - 400+ comments
5. iTWire: Wikipedia, did one of its admins lie?
6. Chronicle of Higher Education: Wikipedia, did one of its admins lie? (magazine for academics)
7. The Register: Bogus Wikipedia Prof. was blessed then promoted
8. BitTech News: Wikipedia manager lied about background (blog?)
9. Tech Dirt: Does The Mistaken Identity Of A Wikipedia Editor Reflect Worse On Wikipedia... Or The New Yorker? (blog?)

Social aggregators:

1. TechMeme: What The New Yorker Article Fraud Tells Us About Wikipedia - 7 blog posts
2. Digg: Jimmy Wales defends a massive liar - 1000+ diggs (front page), 80+ comments

Blog coverage: (red= noted Wikipedians/Former Wikipedians) (blue = prominent commentator)

1. Rough Type: Never trust an avatar - 5 comments
2. Valleywag: Wikipedia expert fabricates his own bio - 2 comments
3. Freakonomics: Wikipedia Oops - 22 comments, 1 repost
4. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Wikipedia New Yorker Article Misrepresentation Exposed - 5 comments
5. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: What The New Yorker Article Fraud Tells Us About Wikipedia - 19 comments
6. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Jimmy Wales Defends Wikipedia New Yorker Article Fabricator - 2 commends
7. Hacking Cough: On Wikipedia, nobody's sure you're a prof - 2 commends
8. MetaFilter: On Wikipedia, no one knows you're a 24-year-old with no credentials - 63 comments
9. XODP: Respected Wikipedian Lies to the Press - 2 comments
10. Nathan: Wikipedia expert fabricates his own bio
11. yesh omrim: Fact checking a fact checker
12. Bizsolutionsplus: Trusting Wikipedia Could Make You Stupid - 2 comments
13. Dave Copeland: A new kind of Anthem
14. Rex Hammock: A Wikipedia oops? Or, a New Yorker oops? - 1 commend
15. Regret the Error: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a 24 year-old with no advanced degrees
16. WebProNews: Wikipedia Source For 'New Yorker' A Fraud
17. Mathew Ingram: Jimmy Wales is wrong about Essjay
18. TechNudge: Wikid, Wikidpedia
19. BlogWorldExpo: Wikipedia Founder Has “No Problem” with Fraud - 4 comments
20. Larry Sanger's Citizendium: Wikipedia Firmly Supports your Right to Identity Fraud
21. Larry Sanger's Citizendium: Our registration policy - how we check identities
22. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Larry Sanger proven right about Wikipedia
23. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: More on certain fraudulent Wikipedians
24. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Why Jimmy Wales must dismiss Ryan Jordan from the ArbCom
25. Cyde Weys Musings: How to deal with liars on Wikipedia?
26. Cyde Weys Musings: More fallout over the Essjay scandal
27. Musings of a Chicagoan: Wikireality and Reality Amusingly Collide
28. Kottke: He's not a doctor, but he plays one on the web
29. Roger Cadenhead's Workbench: Wikipedia Admin Loses His Religion
30. Roger Cadenhead's Workbench: Wikipedia editor faces consequences
31. SecretLondon: Wikipedia bullshitters
32. infrogmation: I don't like this
33. Memestreams: Wikipedia Source For 'New Yorker' A Fraud
34. Applied Epistemology: The 24-year-old who cried "I'm a professor of theology"
35. Maverick Philosopher: The Reliability of Wikipedia
36. Jason Scott's ASCII: J.S. on Essjay (topic of a talk at upcoming notacon)
37. Tech Liberation Front: Wikipedia Doesn’t Make You Coffee Either
38. Will of the People: For Better or For Woes
39. The Dog Killer: Fakeipedia
40. DRLer: 学术身份谎言与维基百科
41. MKemp's Balance: Wikipedia and Groucho Marx
42. 300km North of Moscow: Wikipedia credentials put to the test
43. Ζειν Ακινδύνως: Wikipedia, μια ακίνδυνη ιστορία
44. Complete Geek: Pray for Essjay
45. Phineas Gage Fan Club: The Good, the Bad, and the Wikipedia

March 3 blog coverage:

1. Andrew Lih: Wikipedia Crisis in 60 Seconds
2. Wikipedia Weekly: Essjay Special Espisode (Podcast)
3. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Jimbo Responds on Essjay
4. Cyde Weys Musings: Jimbo Wales Asks Essjay to Resign
5. Rough Type: Head Wikipedian
6. Larry Sanger's Citizendium: Jimmy Wales Latest Response on the Essjay Situation
7. XOPD: Credentialists and impostors
8. Digital Rights Manifesto: Seth Finkelstein Hammers the Point Home
9. WikiP: Jimmy Wales Has Diminished Weirdness of Essjay Scandal
10. About Theology: Academic Credentials and Wikiality
11. OR Blog: I Guess I should write about Ryan
12. Planet KH: Truth as a Great Lie
13. Slashdot: Wikipedia's Wales Reverses Decision on Problem Admin
14. Facts Dat Are Interesting: Essjay OMG
15. Jeff Milner: Jason Scott on Wikipedia Editor Essjay
16. Andrew Lih: Essjay's Third Transgression
17. Sassafrassin: The Peter Principle In Wiki Land
18. WikiP: Andrew Lih Underscores Severity of the essjay case
19. Nathan: Essjay's Third Transgression
20. Gary Kirk: Essjay

March 4 blog coverage:

1. Freakonomics: A Wikipedia Reversal
2. Tales of Drudgery and Boredom: Retired
3. IM2 | OQP: support in this matter was fully based on a lack of knowledge
4. SecretLondon: Wikipedia update
5. Angela Beesley: A Sad Loss
6. XODP: Closure still lacking in Essjay scandal
7. http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/105656.html
8. DIGG: Citizendium slams Jimmy Wales apology of Essjay fraud sysop
9. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Essjay quits
10. Burning Bird: Wikipedia Walking
11. Grant's Rants: The new impermanence (slow return)
12. TechLiberation: The Bizarre Chip on Nick Carr’s Shoulder
13. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Jimmy Wales Reverses On New Yorker False Credentials, Asks Resignation
14. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Wikipedia's Value System
15. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: New Yorker Article Fabricator Retires From Wikipedia
16. WikiP: Essjay has retired from Wikipedia
17. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: New Yorker Wikipedia "Essjay" Fraud Aftermath
18. Ultra Black Shadow: Essjay You're Fired
19. Roger Cadenhead's Workbench: Jimmy Wales invites admin success
20. Cyde Weys Musings: Essjay Quits Wikipedia
21. Joe Duck: Sex, lies, videotape, and Wikipedia
22. Lux et Veritas: Help wanted?
23. Jason Scott's ASCII: Another Essjay Essay
24. OmegaWiki: About Reputation and Education
25. Science Roll: Overview of the recent serious wikipedia scandal
26. Messages from the Outhouse: Wikipedia wallows in self pity and denial after resignation of admin
27. What Really Happened: Wikipedia: Jimbo Wales backpeddles from EssJay scandal (link only)

March 5 coverage:

1. New York Times: A Contributor to Wikipedia Has His Fictional Side <-- WOOT.
2. DIGG: EssJay Resigns from Wikipedia
3. http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/106157.html
4. ZigZigger: Wikilinks
5. Rex Hammock: Jimbo Wales decides faux-PhD should resign his “positions of trust” on Wikipedia
6. Out of Egypt: the moral bankruptcy of wikipedia
7. Freedom to Tinker: Fact check, The New Yorker versus Wikipedia
8. German Wikipedia Courier: Wikipedia und der falsche Professor (Wikipedia Signpost Equivalent)

NOTE: There is way too much media coverage to list here now that the story exploded into the mainstream. More coverage than you want can be found here:

• Google News Search: Essjay
• Google Blog Search: Essjay
• Technorati Blog Search: Essjay
• Yahoo News Search: Essjay

This post has been edited by anon1234: Thu 8th March 2007, 8:53pm