Today’s re-read (thanks to recent events): Craig Silverman’s Poynter column “Plagiarism may be part of weeding-out at Journal Register”

Under the old leadership, and culture, there’s no way a paper would have publicly shared an incident of plagiarism, according to DeRienzo, who has been with the Journal Register Company since 2004. The offender probably wouldn’t have been fired, either.

“I can’t think of an example where we would have announced anything publicly like that before,” he said. “In fact, an editor might get fired for being public about something like that in the old days because it‘s about protecting the corporate reputation. [Today] we believe the corporate reputation is improved by being transparent in the long run.”