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May 21, 2014: Canada.com: AP photo editor accidentally sends BuzzFeed cover letter over newswire
Sadof moved quickly to excise the “unneeded information” but not before Gawker and journalism blogger Jim Romenesko took note of the screw-up. 
Feb 22, 2014: The highly reputable Jim Romenesko and Ben Jacobs (Daily Beast) have reported that Brent Bozell (Media Research Center) has not been writing his own column. One MRC employee goes so far as to report that Bozell didn't even write his own books. Apparently, Tim Graham, the MRC’s Director of Media Analysis as his ghostwriter. The Quad City Times decided to drop his column in light of the information. They write: Bozell may have been comfortable representing others’ work as his own. We’re not. Yeah, journalists don't enjoy being told that they're lazy America-ruiners by someone using a ghost writer."
Jan 26, 2012: Jim Romenesko: Yale Daily News responds to ex-editor’s Romenesko post
“In order to be fair to all those involved and the process they had adhered to, and because the nature of the complaint meant that all its details remain allegations, the News chose not to print a story.” Nov 11, 2011: Columbia Journalism Review: Jim Romenesko Leaves Poynter
Romenesko, the seminal media blogger, resigned from the Poynter Institute last night after his boss, Julie Moos, published an article detailing his occasional failure to indicate that the language he was using to summarize the stories he linked to was, in fact, taken verbatim from the stories themselves. |
Romenesko graduated from Marquette University and went to work for the Milwaukee Journal, serving as a police reporter for the newspaper. Initially repulsed by the sometimes grisly nature of his work, he would go on to publish the coroner's reports of unusual deaths in a book called Death Log (1981). From 1982 to 1995 he worked as an editor for Milwaukee Magazine, where he wrote features and a popular, award-winning column that covered the local media called "Pressroom Confidential". During this time he also taught journalism courses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He went on to work as an Internet reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press from 1996 to 1999. From 1989 to 1999, Romenesko ran a newsletter named Obscure Publications which covered fanzines. In 1998 he began the website Obscure Store and Reading Room, which linked to odd news stories, and which earned him the reputation of a "witty Matt Drudge." The Obscure Store was terminated in September 2011. In May 1999 he began another website, this one covering the media and called Mediagossip.com. It proved a success and later that year was acquired by the Poynter Institute. The site, renamed to Romenesko's MediaNews, was migrated to Poynter's domain and became hugely popular among journalists, helping Poynter get more than 14,000 page views a day in 2000. Romenesko's site, reputed as "the best-known newspaper blog," came to "surpass the journalism reviews as the place where professionals get their 'news about news'" and established itself as "an ad hoc, post-publication, peer review mechanism for the journalistic profession." Romenesko has also been cited as a predecessor to Gawker for having "opened the first and biggest hole in the sacred wall between news and gossip in reporting about the media."
On August 24, 2011, Romenesko announced his "semi-retirement" from the Poynter Institute, in preparation to launch JimRomenesko.com, a blog about media and other items of interest to Romenesko. Romenesko planned to continue with Poynter in a part-time capacity, while expanding the role of other staff members of the Poynter Institute to post items related to media
On August 24, 2011, Romenesko announced his "semi-retirement" from the Poynter Institute, in preparation to launch JimRomenesko.com, a blog about media and other items of interest to Romenesko. Romenesko planned to continue with Poynter in a part-time capacity, while expanding the role of other staff members of the Poynter Institute to post items related to media
