Hartford Courant

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 7:17am on Friday, November 20th, 2009

Journal Inquirer Sues Courant For Plagiarism, the New York Times reported on November 19, 2009:

"The Journal Inquirer of Manchester, Conn., says that The Courant copied The Journal Inquirer’s work in articles published last summer.

The suit, filed Wednesday in Connecticut Superior Court in Hartford, cites 11 Courant articles it says were largely taken from The Journal Inquirer in August and September, and The Journal Inquirer has cited other examples taken from other papers.

Online, The Courant credited many if not all of the articles to the original newspapers, Richard P. Weinstein, The Journal Inquirer’s lawyer, said.

But in print, the attribution was often dropped, and the byline of a Courant writer was added. The articles were rearranged and rewritten to some extent, but some phrases from the originals remained intact."

The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/business/media/20paper.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:36pm on Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Employees of the Harford Courant will have to start paying for home delivery of the newspaper, Romensko reported at Poynter Online on November 12, 2009. Below is the memo from the Courant:

"Effective Sunday, January 3, 2010, the free delivery for full-time employees will be discontinued. However, all employees (full-time and part-time) will be eligible for a discounted rate with a savings of up to 72% for their home delivered copies and will continue to have free access to the Courant’s e-edition. This change is being made as Tribune consolidates benefits among all properties (we are the only property within Tribune that currently offers free subscriptions to employees). So, please consider supporting our business by taking advantage of home delivery."

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 1:57pm on Saturday, September 5th, 2009

On September 3, 2009, Richard J. Graziano, the CEO, president and publisher of the Hartford Courant, said the newspaper had plagiarized the work of other local newspapers and offered an apology:

"The Hartford Courant is America's oldest continuously published newspaper. We've been in business for 245 years. We've earned a reputation for integrity and we take it very seriously. Throughout our history we have served the community by highlighting wrongdoing and violations of ethics when we find them. It is only right that we focus the same light on ourselves when we are wrong.

So, it's incumbent upon me as publisher to tell you that we failed to meet our own standards and, as we would with anyone else, we are flagging it, calling it wrong and taking action.

In short, after an extensive internal review, we have determined that over the last several weeks The Courant plagiarized the work of some of our competitors. This was not our intent, but it is in fact what happened. We are taking corrective action to prevent it from happening again. We have also disciplined the individuals involved."

The full story:
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/hc-courant-apology-plagiarism-090309,0,1524843.story

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 1:52pm on Saturday, September 5th, 2009

The Hartford Courant has been "borrowing" local news stories from other Connecticut newspapers, the Waterbury Republican-American reported on September 3, 2009:

"After cutting its newsroom by half because of the recession and sagging advertising revenue, The Hartford Courant found a new source for news — its competition — and found itself in a plagiarism scandal.

The episode began this summer when The Tribune Co.-owned newspaper began summarizing or rewriting other newspapers' stories and putting them on the Courant Web site. The company defended that as a legitimate practice."

The full story:
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2009/09/05/business/435076.txt