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  Late last night The Courant – in a copyrighted statement - apologized for its blatant, and wholesale plagiarism of other newspapers.    Some questions come to mind:    This has been going on for weeks, it…

Newspaper editors and reporters across the state are noticing a new trend: Their local coverage is being copied daily by the Hartford Courant.

In most cases the Courant has been attributing the reporting to the newspapers being copied, which include the Journal Inquirer, Bristol Press, New Britain Herald, Torrington Register-Citizen, and Waterbury Republican-American.

In some cases the Courant appears to have lifted information from the other papers in its entirety without any attribution.

But either way, editors say, the Courant is using for free and making money from a product other papers pay to produce, and they want it to stop.

See the video and read the transcript of George Gombossy’s appearance Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009 on CNN’s Reliable Sources.

To the Editor: As the editor in charge of the content of The Hartford Courant’s print and online editions until my departure in May, I never gave an advertiser a “heads-up” about a pending story,…

THE FOLLOWING IS A RICK GREEN COLUMN IN THE COURANT OVER THE LAST WEEKEND COMMENTS FROM READERS FOLLOW Gotcha! Press/Herald editor Smith takes a swing at his old paper By Rick Green on August 23,…

The managers at the nation’s oldest newspaper of continuing circulation and its sister television station in Hartford are being accused by me and a television personality of trading in journalistic ethics in the past year…

I have no idea what is going on with Courant editor Naedine Hazell – who not long ago was a well respected journalist by many of the staff at the oldest continuosly published newspaper in…

Today was the first time I had the honor to appear on “Where We Live,” WNPR’s daily news-talk show, where we had nearly an hour to discuss in-depth many of the issues involved in my firing…

From: Hazell, Naedine Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:37 To: Courant News Staff Subject: Staff update

Story: JAMES H. SMITH: One fewer, Courant staffers soldier on George Gombossy, who spent his entire, sterling 40-year career at The Hartford Courant, went out swinging 10 days ago. The New York Times wrote about…

PATRICK SANDERS Associated Press Writer HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Less than a year after Tribune Co. launched an innovative plan to combine the newsrooms of The Hartford Courant and a local TV station, a columnist…

August 18, 2009 Losing Job, Consumer Columnist Cries Foul By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD The Hartford Courant and its former consumer columnist, George Gombossy, agree on one thing: that Mr. Gombossy was laid off this month. But…

Official statement from George Gombossy Editor & Publisher of CtWatchdog.com I surrendered my Hartford Courant press badge to my editors Aug. 14, ending four decades of employment at the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper. The…

Statement on the firing of Connecticut columnist George Gombossy From: Board of Directors, National Society of Newspaper Columnists Release: Immediately For information, contact Ben S. Pollock; secretary, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, ben.pollock@stanfordalumni.org, (479) 236-6302The board…

Dear Naedine Hazell and Jeff Levine, As an occasional reader of the Hartford Courant, I read with painful amusement your shamefully disingenuous staff memo “explaining” why you fired George Gombossy and pulled his consumer protection…