Outsourcing company Journatic used fake bylines on
hundreds of stories it supplied to the Houston Chronicle, Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, Poynter.org reports. Some of
the stories were outright plagiarism.
The Tribune has suspended Journatic as its
collector of local news. The Chronicle is investigating to decide what to do
about the phony bylines and suspect stories.
This is a byproduct of freefalling newspaper
revenue that led to drastic staff cuts and a use of outsourcing (translation:
cheap, non-union labor) to unreliable sources.
Click on the next line to read the Poynter.org
story.
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