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 an [...]

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 using [...]