Newspaper issues apology over story

Published Saturday August 29th, 2009

The Telegraph-Journal published an article last Thursday on the economic spinoffs of the World Acadian Congress by Cheryl Norrad, a contract writer for the newspaper.

The writer translated the story for publication under her own name without acknowledging L'Acadie Nouvelle as the source. She was dismissed from the paper following an investigation.

While news and ideas are public, the words to convey them are not. The Telegraph-Journal expects its journalists to operate with honesty and integrity; a bare translation without credit or attribution is plagiarism and is contrary to the Telegraph-Journal's core ethics and principles.

We deeply regret that this occurred and we will be taking steps to ensure this does not happen again.

We have apologized to our colleagues at L'Acadie Nouvelle without reservation and we apologize to you, our readers.

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Wow. Quite a summer for the Telegraph-Journal.

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News Watcher, NB on 29/08/09 08:01:33 AM AST

Nice. This is almost as bad as Shawna Richer putting fabrications into the story about the Prime Minister. Nice of them to own up to it, although this one is tucked away on page two.

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a b, c on 29/08/09 09:44:43 AM AST

I do not dispute the newspaper's right to dismiss Ms. Norrad for the offence described, but I wonder if it was fair to announce her dismissal in the paper. If I am not mistaken, the specific offences (?) which led to the dismissal (?) of Jamie Irving, as publisher, and Shawna Richer, as editor, were never linked to them, by name. Neither, to the best of my knowledge, were the punishments (?) meted out to them ever announceed by the T-J. Much weightier wrongs were involved in that case, of course, making the public's right to know considerably greater than in the Norrad case.

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Kim J., Saint John on 29/08/09 10:02:09 AM AST

They apologized. Big deal. although not an issue here. if a paper prints a story that defames a person, an apology doesn't make up for the damage caused by the article. Maybe if these reporters faced defamation civil suits every time this happened the apology might be worth something. otherwise it is just words

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Very Conservative, Hampton on 29/08/09 10:37:20 AM AST

I'm sure the reporter can find work that pays more. She was a FREELANCER and the Irvings pay freelancers $25 per story and $10 for each photo they publish. The poor woman could make more at Walmart.

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Omemee With Love, Shh! on 29/08/09 05:26:29 PM AST

Kim J...she wasn't an Irving employee, so technically they didn't "dismiss" her, she just won't be having anything published in New Brunswick anymore. Watch your back if you're an NB reporter...when they own all the papers you're pretty much screwed for work if you get on their bad side.

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Omemee With Love, Shh! on 29/08/09 05:30:31 PM AST

It's sad that Jamie Irving destroyed a half decent paper...

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D. Breeze, Bathurst on 29/08/09 05:32:49 PM AST

I think some of you above are missing the point - that a reporter plagiarized a story. This doesn't have anything to do with the media monopoly, or the general quality of the paper. It's about Ms. Norrad's complete lack of integrity. In firing her, the paper did what was right.

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eric m, fredericton on 30/08/09 12:45:03 PM AST

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