Churnalism Search

At the University of Virginia, one summer when I had a summer job writing press releases for a theater company, and I also volunteered for one of the campus papers, I was amused to see how much of my press releases would appear under a different author’s name in the competing student paper. One time the “author” changed the lead, but used the rest of my press release verbatim.

Ever wonder if the news story youre reading is a product of real journalism or just a spin off of another story posted elsewhere? Discover the journalism you can trust and what you should question.

via Churnalism Search.