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Disgraced Times Reporter Jayson Blair to Lecture at University Ethics Institute
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
October 30, 2009 06:39 am EST
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| Newsweek's May 2004 press release said: "In the May 26 issue...Newsweek tells the tale of the 27-year-old New York Times reporter who faked interviews, lifted quotes and made up scenes during his tenure at the Times." (Source: [PRNewsFoto][KO]NEW YORK, NY USA). |
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Usually young journalists learn their ethical lessons from the paragons of good behavior--role models whose writing and conduct embody the highest regard for responsible reporting. But in the spirit of the opposite kind of lesson--learning from someone else’s mistakes--a group of students will be taking some pointers from one of the most famously unethical journalists of the 21st century next month--disgraced former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair.
Blair is scheduled...Go to full story
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Poaching from Blogs:
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| How some Journalists find their Stories |
| by Katie Rolnick , StinkyJournalism.org |
September 28, 2009 08:03 am EST
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| Miss Heather, who runs the blog NewYorkShitty.com, has seen many of her blog posts regenerated as mainstream media articles without being credited for her work.
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Last week, we wrote about the New York Post poaching a story from a blog called NewYorkShitty.com and not crediting the blog writer, named Miss Heather, for her scoop.
We spoke with Miss Heather about the Post's statement regarding their crediting policy, "THE NY POST CREDITS BLOGS, BLOGGERS AND OTHER MEDIA ALL THE TIME, AS OUR READERS KNOW” (emphasis theirs). She said, "That may be their practice on paper, but that's not their statement in reality."
As... Go to full story
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NY Post Reporter to Blogger: "Post policy prevented me from crediting you"
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| by Katie Rolnick , StinkyJournalism.org |
September 16, 2009 10:51 am EST
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A New York Post reporter made an astonishing admission to a blogger when confronted for not crediting NewYorkShitty.com's scoop. The Post journalist blamed his employer's "policy" for not sourcing bloggers as the cause of the plagiarism. See illustration of the reporter's comment first seen by Miss Heather in an email notification that she later posted. |
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What happens when a reporter working for a traditional news media publication finds a story on a blog? Does he or she attribute the story to the blogger? For writers working at The New York Post, it seems not.
It's not unusual to hear old school/traditional/established/PAID reporters complaining that bloggers profit from their work.
The trope goes something like, "We do all the time-consuming, shoe-leather reporting, then bloggers reap the benefit of site hits by using...Go to full story
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Hartford Courant censured by ethics committee for failing to cite sources
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| SPJ says paper plagiarized by re-running stories |
| by Matthew Nestel, Stinkyjournalism.org |
September 09, 2009
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Even as old-school print newspapers are updating business plans and trying to find ways to attract new readers to their Internet home pages, a critical mass inside and outside the Fourth Estate is also demanding that they maintain policies that protect the profession’s founding tenets of “integrity and credibility”.
According to the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Ethics Committee’s inquiry, a letter of contrition written by The Hartford...Go to full story
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Wired Editor Steals Wikipedia Content for "Free" Book
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| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 26, 2009
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| Chris Anderson, author of new book, "Free", took content from Wikipedia without giving proper attribution. The excuse? He mistakenly left out footnotes. Okay, but what about quotation marks for the Wikipedia text he lifted verbatim and misrepresented as his own words? |
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Ryan Tate, Gawker, reports that Chris Anderson, Wired editor and author of, "Free, The Future of a Radical Price," a book supporting free content usage, stole Wikipedia content. They link to the Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) as the source for the discovery.
Tate writes: "Like so many plagiarists before him, Anderson claims his act was unintentional. The Virginia Quarterly Review first reported his copying, and the explanation he gave us is that he...Go to full story
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DOWD SCANDAL ROUNDUP: Is Dowd's plagiarism part of a larger problem at NY Times?
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| by Danielle Mastropiero & Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 23, 2009
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| SOME FRIEND! When Maureen Dowd tries to excuse herself from plagiarism charges in Huffington Post, she must have "forgotten" that she copied and pasted text from the TalkingPointsMemo blog. Instead she blames a nameless "friend" who she claims told her the information but (that bad friend!) failed to tell her the words were from a TalkingPointsMemo blogger. StinkyJournalism asks: Since there seems to be zero consequences at the Times for Dowd's plagiarism and cover-up, why should the public believe such ethical breaches would ever stop?
(Credit: Language Log) |
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Pulitzer winning columnist Maureen Dowd spent this week under fire amid criticism for plagiarizing content from a political blog, but do her actions --and the slim reaction from the New York Times itself--reflect a culture of nonchalance towards journalism ethics in the Times' newsroom?
TheJoshuaBlog was first to point out that a paragraph in Dowd’s column matched one in Joshua Marshall’s (no relation) site, TalkingPointsMemo (TPM).
Dowd admitted...Go to full story
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NY Daily News' Skin Cream Story:
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| More Infomercial Than Journalism |
| by Danielle Mastropiero, StinkyJournalism.com |
April 29, 2009
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| New York Daily News reporter writes about tummy creme results.(Company founder, Karen Barke, pictured above). Problem was story was more press release puff than journalism...literally. One paragraph is lifted directly from product's web site without citation. |
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The New York Daily News' coverage of a new beauty product read more like a spam e-mail than a news story showcasing a very ugly example of what's passed off for journalism these days.
Nicole Lyn Pesce's "article" on Rodial's stomach tightening cream could easily have been written by the product's makers. She calls the cream is a "miracle serum," as well as a "phenomenon" and cites "rising demand across the globe" without...Go to full story
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Is Nine Times The Same Cover Enough?
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| Cosmo Plagiarizes Itself with Jolie Pic |
| by Danielle Mastropiero, StinkyJournalism.org |
January 28, 2009
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| Gawker reported that International Cosmopolitan published nine nearly identical covers of Angelina Jolie. Did they think no-one would notice? |
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A recent article by "Richard" at Gawker brought solid evidence to the table regarding Cosmopolitan Magazine's relentless recycling of its own content. A reader submitted nine covers of international editions with nearly the same picture of Angelina Jolie, digitally manipulated slightly, he claimed, to change the color of her dress as well as the position of her arm.
Although it is rarely recognized as such, self-plagiarism is as significant a breach of ethics as the...Go to full story
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