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[AfroBurrito]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-fukushima-workers-idUSBRE9BT00520131230

Versus...

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/world/2013/12/182_148877.html

With particular attention paid to this excerpt:

The first one is from the Reuters story:

"Part of the problem in monitoring taxpayer money in Fukushima is the sheer number of companies involved in decontamination, extending from the major contractors at the top to tiny subcontractors many layers below them. The total number has not been announced. But in the 10 most contaminated towns and a highway that runs north past the gates of the wrecked plant in Fukushima, Reuters found 733 companies were performing work for the Ministry of Environment, according to partial contract terms released by the ministry in August under Japan's information disclosure law."

The second part being from the part purportedly authored by a one Kim Su-mi.


"Part of the problem in monitoring taxpayer money in Fukushima is the sheer number of companies involved in decontamination, extending from the major contractors at the top to tiny subcontractors many layers below them. The total number has not been announced."

I'm not privy to the journalistic practice, but would not a reference to the fact that this "story" was taken from the Reuters piece have been required?

[Zyzyfer]

lol

Stay classy, Korea Times.

edit: I got bored of reading the same thing twice eventually. But whoever "wrote" the English version of the Korea Times article basically wrote like five (semi-)original words.

[archaeologist5]

[optik404]

[AfroBurrito]

I have my doubts. Even The New York Times will attribute and reference if a piece is sourced from the AP or Reuters. Everything I've found online seems to indicate an expectation of attribution. And that KT author flat out presented the work as his/her own. What self-respecting journalist would permit someone else to claim their work as their own, especially if they'd spent an inordinate amount of time researching the story?

[optik404]

Under the picture it says Courtesy of Reuters. Maybe they thought that was enough. Don't compare the Times to Korea Times. They aren't even in the same universe.

[AfroBurrito]

[AfroBurrito]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/japan-homeless-recruited-clean-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-zone-special-report-article-1.1561307

Notice the clear crediting. Also, notice that the photos are credited to the photojournalist AND news source.

And no reporter at the secondary outlet, in this case the NY Daily News, ever claims to have written the piece.

Just Google "Japan Fukushima Homeless" and a slew of articles will arise having correctly sourced.

Anyway.

I'll leave it for you all to decide. But I certainly have no intention of taking what I read in Korean "journalism" at face value. Well, not that I we've did.

Random aside. Welcome to 2014!