Six people at the Hartford Courant, including Content Manager Jeff Levine and Editor Naedine Hazell, have been disciplined by Tribune for their role in plagiarizing material from their competitors’ newspapers. The nature of the discipline is not yet clear, but apparently follows from an inquiry by Tribune Executive Vice President Bob Gremillion. Additionally, according to [...]
It is my sad duty to report to the many alums who loved and respected her that Hartford Courant Graphics Director Melanie Shaffer died today. Melanie was among the most decent, reasonable, hard-working, humble, creative and talented journalists to work at The Courant, and my friends in the building say the collective grief is so [...]
A respected journalist pal of mine, who doesn’t want his name used for a number of good reasons, had a couple of worthy thoughts related to the Hartford Courant aggregation fiasco. I’ll paraphrase: The Courant’s key mistake was how they conceived of their “aggregation” efforts. Content Manager Jeff Levine’s recent note mentions that they were [...]
So now it’s been established that the Courant violated ethical standards by using its competitors’ stories without attribution. That’s pretty much a no brainer to figure out for most journalists who got through the second week of Journalism 101. But what about its use of the competition with attribution? There is a line in the [...]
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