Colorado Springs Gazette

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 5:29pm on Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Colorado Springs Gazette Ceases Statehouse Presence In 2010, State Bill Colorado reported on December 9, 2009:

"The Gazette’s political reporter, Dean Toda, recently departed the newspaper as part of a round of layoffs that cost the jobs of 10 percent of newsroom staffers, Managing Editor Larry Ryckman said. Tom Roeder, who covers the military beat for the newspaper, will take over political reporting duties, but he will do so largely from Colorado Springs.

“We’re focused a lot more on home and not on the statehouse,” Ryckman said. “Our strategy is more focused on how this region is affected by what’s going on at the statehouse.”

The full story:
http://www.statebillnews.com/2009/12/gazette-following-others-lead-to-drop-capitol-presence-in-2010/

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 1:37pm on Friday, July 10th, 2009

The Colorado Springs Gazette has fired Hailey Mac Arthur, a college student doing a summer internship at the newspaper, for lifting passages from the New York Times. Gazette editor Jeff Thomas wrote on July 7, 2009:

"On Tuesday I learned that The Gazette has published four news stories during the past month that contain passages that are substantially similar, and in some cases identical, to passages in news stories originally published by The New York Times.

For this reason, reporter Hailey Mac Arthur, a college student doing a summer internship in our newsroom, has been dismissed from The Gazette. The Gazette forbids plagiarism, which is the act of employing the creative work of someone else and passing it off as your own. None of the four Gazette articles attributed borrowed material to the Times, as is required when quoting the work of some other publication."

The full story:
http://www.gazette.com/articles/gazette-58112-stories-four.html