On page A3 of today’s Sunday Hartford Courant, the paper responded to the charges of plagiarism made by the Journal Inquirer of Manchester.
“Last week, The Courant received a letter from The Journal Inquirer managing editor that prompted it to review our aggregation strategy. We found that there were legitimate points of concern. Most importantly, we discovered a mistake in our editing process when we take articles from our website to our print newspaper. We found that we inappropriately dropped the attribution or proper credit and in some cases credited ourselves with a byline to a Courant reporter. Once made aware of this mistake, The Courant took immediate steps to correct the process. It is, and has been, the policy of The Hartford Courant to attribute all information to its proper source.”
