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By: Washington Post Accused Blogger of Ripping off Article | Progressive Advertiser

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:59:49 +0000

[...] think Shapira needs to lighten up and tell his editor to stop putting bad ideas in his head”. Rachel Sklar from Mediate wrote: “There’s no question that it’s a ripoff when an entire 8-paragraph post is pulled from [...]

By: Radley Balko Comments on CNN’s Unattributed Use of His Reporting - City Desk - Washington City Paper

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:43:00 +0000

[...] fallout that ensued was tremendous. A few web-only writers went after Gawker, but even more argued that at least Gawker gave credit, whereas newspapers, television stations, [...]

By: We Gawk at Gawker Gawking at WaPo « Around The Sphere

We Gawk at Gawker Gawking at WaPo « Around The Sphere — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:35:56 +0000

[...] Rachel Sklar at Mediaite: The blogosphere has done something weird to the media industry: Now, the imprimatur of having contributed something is not the original byline, but whether your piece was “picked up.” Pickup provides that extra stamp of relevance, that what you did is worthy of inclusion by the all-important aggregators — the outlets which determine the days need-to-know stories, so busy people with no time to read any of it will at least know what’s up. Yes, yes, congratulations on getting your little article published in a top national newspaper — but a Drudge/Romenesko/HuffPo/Gawker link? Awesome! [...]

By: Washington Post vs. Gawker - The Thriller in Plain Vanilla - Part 2 | Yo Stella - A Creative Management Company

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:40:20 +0000

[...] 5. Did Gawker Rip Off The Washington Post? Yep. by Rachel Sklar | 12:59 pm, August 2nd, 2009 at Media-ite “The more I toggled between my editor’s e-mail and the eight-paragraph Gawker item, the angrier I got, and the more disenchanted I became with the journalism business.” [...]

By: Ziona Etzion

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:48:10 +0000

Why did Ira Shapira in today’s Washington Post, describing his reaction to Gawker’s write-up of his recent story on a consultant who explains Millennials to Gen-Xers and Boomers. At first he felt flattered; then, ripped off…not take it to the next level and be the first to use the new media to quote himself?

What prevents journalists from reaching out further.

I am not sure that the blogosphere has done something weird to the media industry…it might just have expanded their scope.

The difference as it see it is that bloggers are not paid to share if they are not linked up and leveraging their
blog.

By: Galen

Galen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:48:12 +0000

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Steal This Professionally Reported Content - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:02:26 +0000

[...] her column at Mediaite, Rachel Sklar expanded on her Twitter assessment: “The blogosphere has done something weird to the media industry: Now, the imprimatur of having contributed something is not the original [...]

By: Andrew Golis » Blog Archive » links for 2009-08-03

Andrew Golis » Blog Archive » links for 2009-08-03 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:03:02 +0000

[...] Did Gawker Rip Off The Washington Post? Yep. | Columnists | Mediaite Sklar has a good take on rewrites and aggregation. (tags: aggregation wapo gawker copyright fair.use rachel.sklar mediate) [...]

By: alvin

alvin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:49:34 +0000

Poor Mr. Shapira can’t even get his name spelled right when someone is backing him up.

By: gawker | Fooner

gawker | Fooner — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:30:01 +0000

[...] Did Gawker Rip Off The Washington Post? Yep. | Columnists | MediaiteThe more I toggled between my editor’s e-mail and the eight-paragraph Gawker item, the angrier I got, and the more disenchanted I became with the journalism business. So wrote Ira Shapira in today’s Washington Post, describing his …Read More [...]

By: Mickey Trimarchi

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:25:05 +0000

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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:58:54 +0000

Oh boy!

By: Monday Morning Roundup: Content Slap-Fights, Glenn Beck, and Jaws « ASSME: American Society of Shitcanned Media Elites

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:01:40 +0000

[...] and the Internet. He was flattered, but then his editor told him to be mad so he was mad. Then Rachel Sklar was mad for him. Then Nick Denton was pithy, and we all thought about traffic bumps and fair usage and how the [...]

By: The Washington Post versus Gawker | LEESEAN.NET

The Washington Post versus Gawker | LEESEAN.NET — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:06:42 +0000

[...] Sklar: Did Gawker Rip Off The Washington Post? Yep. The blogosphere has done something weird to the media industry: Now, the imprimatur of having [...]

By: Did Gawker Rip Off The Washington Post? Yep. | Columnists | Mediaite | kozmom news

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:06:05 +0000

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By: Glenn Fleishman

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:39:37 +0000

“But there’s more to this than just a straight rip off – it’s about crediting and attribution, too.” It’s partly that those of us that don’t live and die by page views are increasingly irritated that those that do are using less and less research and attribution.

I write tech journalism (for outlets as varied as TidBITS, a 19-year-old Mac publication, to the Economist), and it’s just as galling to see several hours or even weeks of ferreting out facts and analyzing them turned into something that’s read on Engadget or Gizmodo with a “READ” link at the bottom, the source barely or not mentioned, and my work more or less stolen, even when one could make a case that the attribution was barely good enough.

I don’t need the accolades, but especially as a freelancer, I need the clarity that the interest in a given story comes from my reporting of it. That’s how I continue to work. For staffers of a publication, the same is true, because impact is often measured in page views and other metrics.