While I understand the need for professional cordiality and to not step on ranking toes, there is also a reason blogs were developed – to publish ideas outside of the tight restrictions of formal journalism and to respond to other pieces of published news or ideas. I like this blog and you’ve done your due dilligence. Carry on.

Okay- plagiarism is a heavy, heavy charge to level at someone and looking at the stories linked, it doesn’t come close to applying here.

Actually, it’s the part where specific words were copied from my stories that are plagiarism, not the overall ideas themselves. I’ve been a blogger for a long time and a professional journalist even longer, and the (credible) bloggers in this city understand the ethics of including links, referrals and credit when you get ideas — and words — from somewhere else.
Thanks for your attention and honesty on this. Onward.
Amy Quinn

‘site her work’? Surely you mean ‘cite her work’

Yes, thank you!

[...] Substitute EverDept. Of Trees Falling In Forests: Citizen Mom Cries Plagiarism At Servicey TextWe don’t actually care about this enough to finish writing this post. Plagiarize THAT, Naked Philly. Also, while you are at it: Please address your slogan — [...]

Hopefully everyone can learn from this and move on, cause both Newsworks and Naked Philly are awesome sites that I love to read to keep up on Philly while I’m away!

I’m sorry, but I’ve spent the last 15 minutes trying to find the articles on Plan Philly / Newsworks that are relevant to this post, and I can’t! Is it just that Plan Philly lacks SEO and user friendly navigability, and this is why they are pissed that maybe their stories aren’t as popular? As someone who has worked in this field for 11 years, with a buddy sitting next to me who has worked in the press for 28 yrs, I can’t understand what the issue is here. Everyone picks up leads. If you’re covering the same story it’s bound to be reiterated in similar fashion. This just seems like kindergarten ‘I said it first’…

Oh Naked Philly, didn’t you learn the lesson from “You’ve Got a Friend in Pennsylvania” that it is redundant to have “have” and “got” in the same sentence?
We have nothing to hide. Good.
We got nothing to hide. Yes.
We have got nothing to hide? Wrong.

[...] was then outed in early May by PlanPhilly writer Amy Z. Quinn after Quinn accused the blog of plagiarizing her material and criticized the site’s anonymity in light of the site’s “We’ve got [...]

[...] was afterwards outed in early May by PlanPhilly author Amy Z. Quinn after Quinn accused a blog of plagiarizing her material and criticized the site’s anonymity in light of a site’s “We’ve got zero to hide” [...]

[...] was afterwards outed in early May by PlanPhilly author Amy Z. Quinn after Quinn accused a blog of plagiarizing her material and criticized the site’s anonymity in light of a site’s “We’ve got zero to hide” [...]