Just weeks shy of his plotted semi-retirement, famed media blogger Jim Romenesko has resigned from his position at Poynter after being accused of improperly attributing quotes in his blog, Romenesko+.The charge came in an article written by Julie Moos, the director of Poynter Online, who said Romenesko’s “imperfect attribution” had failed to meet “the highest standards of journalism excellence” that the site works dense to adhere to. “Though data sources have always been showed prominently in Jim’s posts and are always linked at least once (often multiple times), also 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,” she wrote. Glance at More…
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