Friday 1 August 2014

3 Lessons Citizen Journalists Should Learn from BuzzFeed’s Plagiarism Scandal



3 Lessons Citizen Journalists Should Learn from BuzzFeed's Plagiarism Scandal

Last Friday, BuzzFeed fired "Viral Politics" editor Benny Johnson. The popular internet time-waster cited over 40 instances of plagiarism committed by the conservative-leaningcontent creator.

Putting aside whether those alleged instances of plagiarism were actually plagiarism, and ignoring the fact that BuzzFeed itself is based on taking stuff from all over the internet (aggregation, anyone?), what lessons can we learn from this episode?

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