The JI’s story about the Courant’s use of other paper’s stories apparently hit home on Broad Street.
After telling the JI that the Courant’s publisher would not comment, the Courant posted a statement from Content Director Jeff Levine on its website saying there were “legitimate points of concern” and citing “a mistake in our editing process” when moving stories from the online to the print edition, resulting in attribution being lost.
The Courant says it “regrets these errors” and is continuing to review its “overall aggregation strategy,” but our reading of the statement didn’t leave us with the impression the Courant plans to stop aggregating other papers’ stories.
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A few more observations:
It is good that the paper is taking steps to correct its behavior, but bad that it took the journalistic equivalent of a two-by-four over the head from the other local press before the Courant manager saw the error of his paper’s ways. It suggests a lack of integrity, journalistic training, journalistic ethics or all three.
Or maybe the content manager should just read his own paper sometime, rather than wait for the JI to read it to him.
And finally, I would like to know if the print world’s word for aggregation will soon be defined in a court of law as copyright infringement.