Thursday, December 17, 2009

Plagiarism at WFMY?

There is an article on WFMY's Digtriad today about an accident involving Cincinnati Bengal's football player Chris Henry (who has now died). The author of the WFMY piece* is identified as Matt McKinney (his name hyperlinks to an email address at wfmy.gannet.com), but his story is identical to a story by AP sports writer Mike Cranston.

* UPDATE: The story on WFMY's site has changed. The original, as it appeared at the time of this post, is here.

4 comments:

  1. It does say "Associated Press" at the end of the article. Wonder if Matt McKinney simply created the web page?

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  2. sorry... posted the above comment before I saw your update.

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  3. I did not know anybody still watched "News 2 Us"

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  4. Great catch! Lazy journalism!

    Question: Why do updates to my stories not appear in the We101 version?

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