Lawsuit Alleges Plagiarism by Hartford Courant – NYTimes.com

Suit Accuses Hartford Courant of Plagiarism (Published 2009)

A lawsuit cites 11 Hartford Courant articles it says were largely taken from The Journal Inquirer.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/business/media/20paper.html

Newspapers have tried many ways to cover the news with dwindling resources: dropping certain topics, having people do double duty, using more wire service work. Routine plagiarism is not usually an option, but a lawsuit contends that it was for a while at The Hartford Courant.