Medill Journalism Student: 'Clearly I Did Not Know the Proper Way to Aggregate'

It’s been a rough week for the Deseret News, a well-trafficked Utah newspaper owned by the Church of Latter-day Saints, and their recent summer intern Michael Smith. All thanks to the intrepid efforts of iMediaEthics managing editor Sydney Smith.

On Monday-Tuesday, Smith gradually got to the bottom of dozens of improperly attributed online items, all with Smith’s byline. Today, the former intern, a graduate student at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, explains and takes full responsibility for his sloppy actions involving sources such as the Washington Examiner and CBC-TV:

“Clearly I did not know the proper way to aggregate, which was my intention,” he told iMediaEthics via email.

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