Overheard

"The new industry standard is to give credit where credit is due, either by writing the attribution into the story or with credit lines at the end. It was Uli Schmetzer's misfortune to be an old-school journalist caught in the toils of this change."

WHO: Don Wycliff, the Chicago Tribune's public editor.
ABOUT WHAT: A fired columist's relatively low level of malfeasance, in this article: Shifting paradigms and the new standards for journalists