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There's also a problem of copy+paste journalism, where some scammy company simply steals your stories and reprints them almost word for word with no credit. In

There's also a problem of copy+paste journalism, where some scammy company simply steals your stories and reprints them almost word for word with no credit. In Canada that scammy company is called the CBC, they are notorious for stealing content of regional and foreign newspapers. So even if you do have an excellent small media outlet all your product will just get stolen by those with more visibility.

52-6F-62 7y ago
I’d love to see some evidence of this being true. I have a very hard time believing it otherwise. Simply reporting on the same events after another outlet has does not make them a scam. The CBC is a valuable public service that produces heaps of quality content.
- hackermailman 7y ago
  Every single news outlet in Canada complains about the CBC copy pasting their content, if you work at any media it's a running joke that the CBC is going to pirate whatever you do and have it up for free on cbc.ca within minutes of publishing. There's dozens of articles about this just search for copy paste journalism or email any reporter in Canada and ask them. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tristin-hopper-really-want-to-help-print-journalism-ottawa-stop-cbc-from-undercutting-us https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tristin-hopper-really-want-... https://www.canadalandshow.com/cbc-often-reports-competitors-scoops-without-credit/ https://www.canadalandshow.com/cbc-often-reports-competitors... >If a reporter scores an important scoop or completes a lengthy investigation, within hours that story will be quickly rewritten and posted to CBC.ca for free, and often without attribution (watch for the phrase “CBC has learned” to spot these types of rewrites). Of course this is common practice to rewrite articles, but you're supposed to give credit, and it's especially shady when you have a taxpayer funded budget to feed off private industry with an army of interns to snatch content and post it for free. CBC is supposed to cover stories the national media won't bother with, but instead for a couple of years now they've just been "repurposing content". Edit: AP is also doing a trial with blockchain tagging to try and end copy paste journalism
  - 52-6F-62 7y ago
    The CBC is a news public service. If you have a reference for your version of the mandate, please share. For what it’s worth I do work in the media and with some people who’ve been working in it as long as I’ve been on this earth. (And no, not for the CBC) [edited: thought I should clarify I’m not a reporter or writer, but I do work closely with editorial and arts teams] I’ve never once heard anything like anything you’ve said. News organizations have long done this kind of thing. Right in the candaland article they reference The Canadian Association of Journalists’ Ethics Guidelines which states that once it’s in the public domain there is no copyright if the publisher comes to the same story. That’s typically referred to (at least in some copy as “independently corroborated”). As a best practice the CBC probably should still be referencing the other outlets that covered the story, especially the original. But there’s nothing unique about this, nor especially rendering it as a practice or the CBC as a scam. As a side note I don’t favour NP opinion pieces as qualitative evidence. Hopper clearly just wants the CBC to crumble. The Canadaland article is better, but is mostly tweets and complaints. The CBC is not the reason the press and media in general is struggling business-wise.

52-6F-62 7y ago

I’d love to see some evidence of this being true. I have a very hard time believing it otherwise. Simply reporting on the same events after another outlet has does not make them a scam. The CBC is a valuable public service that produces heaps of quality content.

hackermailman 7y ago
Every single news outlet in Canada complains about the CBC copy pasting their content, if you work at any media it's a running joke that the CBC is going to pirate whatever you do and have it up for free on cbc.ca within minutes of publishing. There's dozens of articles about this just search for copy paste journalism or email any reporter in Canada and ask them. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tristin-hopper-really-want-to-help-print-journalism-ottawa-stop-cbc-from-undercutting-us https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tristin-hopper-really-want-... https://www.canadalandshow.com/cbc-often-reports-competitors-scoops-without-credit/ https://www.canadalandshow.com/cbc-often-reports-competitors... >If a reporter scores an important scoop or completes a lengthy investigation, within hours that story will be quickly rewritten and posted to CBC.ca for free, and often without attribution (watch for the phrase “CBC has learned” to spot these types of rewrites). Of course this is common practice to rewrite articles, but you're supposed to give credit, and it's especially shady when you have a taxpayer funded budget to feed off private industry with an army of interns to snatch content and post it for free. CBC is supposed to cover stories the national media won't bother with, but instead for a couple of years now they've just been "repurposing content". Edit: AP is also doing a trial with blockchain tagging to try and end copy paste journalism
- 52-6F-62 7y ago
  The CBC is a news public service. If you have a reference for your version of the mandate, please share. For what it’s worth I do work in the media and with some people who’ve been working in it as long as I’ve been on this earth. (And no, not for the CBC) [edited: thought I should clarify I’m not a reporter or writer, but I do work closely with editorial and arts teams] I’ve never once heard anything like anything you’ve said. News organizations have long done this kind of thing. Right in the candaland article they reference The Canadian Association of Journalists’ Ethics Guidelines which states that once it’s in the public domain there is no copyright if the publisher comes to the same story. That’s typically referred to (at least in some copy as “independently corroborated”). As a best practice the CBC probably should still be referencing the other outlets that covered the story, especially the original. But there’s nothing unique about this, nor especially rendering it as a practice or the CBC as a scam. As a side note I don’t favour NP opinion pieces as qualitative evidence. Hopper clearly just wants the CBC to crumble. The Canadaland article is better, but is mostly tweets and complaints. The CBC is not the reason the press and media in general is struggling business-wise.