So the folks filming the Bravo documentary on the NYDN have been all over the newsroom today. It’s slightly disconcerting and makes me a very self-conscious, having the tables turned on you like that! But, I do like their cool little cameras.
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I just noticed this being talked about over at Romenesko’s letters:
>On Saturday, Newsday revealed that Alex Storozynski, who once shared a Pulitzer for editorials at New York’s Daily News, did not attribute certain passages and quotes on W. Mark Felt in a June 1 article, which came from a May 31 article at washingtonpost.com.
>”This is a violation of our standards on sources and attribution,” Newsday spokesman Stu Vincent said Friday. A correction appeared Friday.
>Newsday quoted Storozynski, denying plagiarism: “It was clear that those were statements from the Washington Post.” He said he “mentioned the Washington Post three times” in his story. But Newsday noted: “The amNewYork story did refer to staff members of the Washington Post, but did not directly attribute any information to the Post.”
We talked about this before, the fact that journalists cannibalize each other’s stories, sometimes without attribution. When we last talked, it was in the context of unsigned AP stories, I believe.
What do you think about this story? Some seem to think he was unfairly pressured to resign. I don’t have an answer here.
BTW, you were very clear about your views on lifted quotes.
Jeffrey — New York
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I haven’t read the amNewYork story, and can’t find it online, so it’s a little hard to say. If it really was clear the quotes come from the Washington Post, then it it that big a deal they weren’t directly attributed?
There was an interesting story about this here in the Detroit Free Press following the Mitch Albom mess:
My understanding is similar to that of Freep sports columnist Michael Rosenberg, who