Jim Romenesko Accused of Improper Attribution
Jim Romenesko, the Godfather of media blogging, announced a semi-retirement from his popular Poynter blog a couple of months ago. Today he probably wishes he had retired fully–because an assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism Review just confronted Poynter with multiple examples of Romenesko borrowing language from his sources without attribution.
According to a post by Poynter’s Julie Moos, Romenesko is always good about attributing the reporting of his posts to its original sources. But he often borrows language directly from other stories without block quoting or putting the cut-and-pasted language in quotations–as is Poynter’s policy.
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