Patch Editor-in-Chief Brian Farnham on Perceived Lack of Oversight, Plagiarism Issues

Brian Farnham, editor-in-chief of Patch, Aol’s network of hyperlocal news sites, spoke with Ryan Derousseau for an installment of So What Do You Do for WebNewser parent mediabistro.com.

On allegations that there is a lack of editorial oversight at Patch:

Yeah, you know I think that is kind of an unfortunate stereotype really of our people. We now have a couple of hundred editors. The average for the editors is nine years of journalism experience. So it’s not as if everyone is right out of school.

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