By Kevin McCauley
Jim Romenesko, who sold his must-read journalism blog to the Poynter Institute a dozen years ago, quit last night after he was criticized by PI director Julie Moos for failing to put quotation marks around sentences of stories that he was aggregating for the site.
“One danger of this practice is that the words may appear to belong to Jim when they in fact belong to another,” blogged Moos.
Romenesko, 58, never maintained that his blog was based on original reporting. He had planned to go on a part-time basis at PI by the end of the year and launch his own blog covering media, food, finance and real estate.
“We will change the blog’s name in the coming days, but Romenesko will remain an important part of Poynter’s legacy, one we value,” blogged Moss.
Karen Dunlap, Poynter president, called Romenesko a “creative journalist and a fine person.”
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