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Megan Lavey
Maestro
Joined: 30 Apr 2004
Posts: 788
Location: Arizona Daily Star
Posted:
Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:09 pm
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One of our MEs clued the newsroom into this story of a friend of his that was just fired from the Danbury, Conn. newspaper after goofing around with a cutline on a page and it got out on the Internet. It's actually a principle that he just taught me about, and it's a story like this that really drives it home:
| Quote: | DANBURY, Conn. (AP) – The News-Times has apologized and fired a copy editor who put an offensive caption on its Web page under a photo of a girls' high school soccer team.
The Immaculate High School girls' team was celebrating a goal scored in a championship-clinching win Nov. 5. The newspaper's Web site published a photograph of the jubilant team, but said it was celebrating a teammate's decision to "come out of the closet as a lesbian."
"It was a flagrant, awful violation of every journalistic principle," said Paul Steinmetz, the paper's editor. "It's just embarrassing to us and untenable."
The copy editor, who was not identified, was "goofing around" and didn't realize the caption had gone online, Steinmetz said.
The bogus caption stayed on the Web page for a few hours on Sunday and received a few hundred hits, Steinmetz said. "We couldn't get it off the Web site as fast as we wanted to," he said.
The newspaper, which has a circulation of about 33,000 in western Connecticut, is training more employees to administer its Web site so future errors can be fixed promptly, Steinmetz said.
Although the caption appeared only on the Web site, the newspaper apologized both online and in its print edition. The paper also met with the family and school officials and wrote a letter of apology to the soccer team, Steinmetz said.
Calls seeking comment were left Friday with school officials.
The News-Times is owned by New York-based Ottaway Newspapers, a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Co. |
The ME here in Lewiston had this advice share with the staff when he sent around the story and I felt it was also worth sharing with folks here:
| Quote: | | "To make it worse, years ago I supervised this guy in Connecticut, warned him more than once that he was risking his job by fooling around. He was immensely talented and a hard worker, but he thought he could always walk on the edge without falling off. Now he's fallen off, and I doubt he'll ever be able to regain his balance on a newspaper." |
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