The San Diego Union-Tribune
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The San Diego Union-Tribune is a daily newspaper published in San Diego, California. The result of a February 2, 1992, merger of The San Diego Union, founded October 10, 1868, and the Evening Tribune, founded December 2, 1895, it refers to itself as the oldest business in San Diego County and the second-oldest newspaper in Southern California. The website Signonsandiego.com republishes much of the Union-Tribune's content as well as publishing its own material. The newspaper is known to be "reliably conservative";.The Union-Tribune was acquired by Copley Press in 1928, and was sold to the private equity group Platinum Equity of Beverly Hills on March 18, 2009. Ed Moss of Baltimore has been the publisher since May 2009.The Union-Tribune prices are: 75 cents Daily, $1.84 Sunday..
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Plagiarism and the link: How the web makes attribution easier — and more complicated
Nate Thayer, the writer who touched off a debate this week about how freelancers are compensated, found himself embroiled in another controversy on Friday when he was accused of plagiarizing large parts of the piece that The Atlantic wanted him to re-work for free. In his defence, Thayer and his editor said links weren’t included in the original version due to an editing error, a mistake they later corrected.
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Nate Thayer: freelance plagiarist?
To follow up on Thursday's post about the plagiarism accusations against freelancer Nate Thayer made by author Jeremy Duns and repeated/reinforced by New York Magazine: Looking at Mark Zeigler's San Diego Union-Tribune article and Thayer's piece for NK News, side-by-side, yes, it sure does seem like Thayer lifted from Zeigler's article, sources, and quotes.
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Thayer accused of plagiarizing parts of article The Atlantic wanted to publish for free
If you’ve been following media news this week, you know that Thayer ignited a debate by publicly berating The Atlantic for asking him … Read more.
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Press Publish 6: Rick Edmonds of Poynter on paywalls, print days, and the economics of newspapers
It’s Episode 6 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest this week is Rick Edmonds, Poynter’s media business analyst, and our topic is the business outlook for American newspapers.
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Amid further reports of plagiarism, Toronto schools official resigns
CBC News | National Post | The Globe and Mail | Toronto Star Chris Spence resigned as director of education for the Toronto District School Board Thursday. He’d already apologized for plagiarizing portions of an opinion piece published in the … Read more.
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The stories you missed over Thanksgiving
Arrivals and departures George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna Bush Hager will become editor-at-large at Southern Living magazine. The BBC has a new director general, Tony Hall, who replaces.
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San Diego Loses a Newspaper Scion, David Copley
The death of David C. Copley, the former publisher of The San Diego Union-Tribune, marks the end of his family’s involvement in the city.
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New York Times circulation up 40% as newspaper numbers generally flat
New York Times | ABC The latest report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations finds that daily circulation for the nation’s newspapers was down 0. 2 percent compared to the same period last year. Sunday circulation was up 0. 6 percent.
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The newsonomics of near-term numerology
Think about this. The Tampa Tribune, a paper that would have been worth hundreds of millions of dollars a decade ago, sold this week for $9 million.
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Big-foot billionaires crash the media scene in Israel, Australia
You’ve heard of Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas billionaire who bankrolled Newt Gingrich’s campaign and continues to pour millions into Republican Super PACs? Suppose he also owned and generously funded a free-distribution newspaper pushing his political agenda and driving… Read more.
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