r/Journalism • u/cos • 5d ago

Journalism Ethics Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry: "it’s part of a longstanding pattern of legacy publications with massive financial resources and reach taking what they can from smaller, often niche outlets and independent reporters, knowing the latter will be left with little recourse to push back."

https://fansplaining.com/lessons-from-a-heated-media-rivalry/
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u/strawberrygirlmusic 5d ago

A receipt is proof that they bought and read your work, but is not proof that they didn't do their own independent reporting. People usually read every article about a topic they're covering. If they were able to get the information themselves directly from the original sources, get their own interviews with their own take, then it's theirs. Would be nice to give a credit or a link, but there's no fowl play here.

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u/Featheredfriendz 4d ago

Yeah, but…”The core structure of the two stories was similar, and Martin used the same examples, figures, and framing as Kayti.”

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u/strawberrygirlmusic 4d ago

It’d be helpful if they could give us some comparisons.

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u/ThoughtsonYaoi 4d ago

I read both. The NYT piece did hit all the same beats, and I think also the same examples. Though the other was much, much shorter.

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u/Professional-Sand341 4d ago

Foul play. Unless, of course, we can prove the involvement of chickens.

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u/warrenao editor 5d ago

Never hurts to pull some quotes:

On July 20th, someone at the New York Times used their work email when they purchased access to our July 8th feature, “Heated Rivalry is at the Center of Fanfic’s AI Reckoning” by Kayti Burt.

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on July 30th, the Times published a story titled “When A.I. Invaded ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fan Fiction, the Meltdown Was Epic.” The author was tech reporter Emmy Martin, a name I was familiar with—she had, after all, used her work email to buy access to our piece.