Jim Romenesko's Posts Exhibit 'Pattern Of Incomplete Attribution'

Poynter.org’s Jim Romenesko, who has been aggregating stories at the wildly popular Romenesko blog for twelve years, is in a small amount of hot water.

Romenesko arguably invented aggregation (and Poynter’s Julie Moos says the same in her post today), taking snippets from stories in the media world and linking back, making his blog a must-read for anyone in journalism.

But an assistant editor at Columbia Journalism Review has noticed a problem. Moos explains: “Though information sources have always been displayed prominently in Jim’s posts and are always linked at least once (often multiple times), too many of those posts also included the original author’s verbatim language without containing his or her words in quotation marks, as they should have.”

Moos adds: “If only for quotation marks, it would be exactly right.

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