Suit Accuses Hartford Courant of Plagiarism; New York Times, 11/20/09

Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times; Suit Accuses Hartford Courant of Plagiarism:

"The Journal Inquirer of Manchester, Conn., has sued The Courant, the state’s largest paper, saying that it copied The Journal Inquirer’s work in articles published last summer, a time when The Courant was also, in a subsequent admission, lifting material from several other northern Connecticut newspapers.

The suit, filed Wednesday in Connecticut Superior Court in Hartford, cites 11 Courant articles it says were largely taken from The Journal Inquirer in August and September, and The Journal Inquirer has cited other examples taken from other papers.

Plagiarism has cropped up as an occasional transgression at many publications, but it is rarely exposed as a regular practice."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/business/media/20paper.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=hartford%20courant&st=cse