Last November we posted an item about how The Local, an English language news website in Sweden, had claimed that Chinese news service Xinhua was stealing its articles. Last week The Local noted that several of its articles had apparently been plagiarized by SR, the Swedish public radio broadcaster. SR eventually posted a "clarification" about the situation, which The Local Accepted. From The Local:
...Closer examination revealed that more than a dozen news articles were pretty much copied and pasted from The Local, and some were read aloud on the radio.
We made inquiries with Radio Sweden, who took down the articles and apologised to us personally. On Wednesday, an article about this appeared on the website of media industry magazine Resumé, after which SR published a clarification in English and Swedish on its website.
We were naturally disappointed that this happened in the first place, fearing that our readers could conclude that we had plagiarised Radio Sweden. We are reassured by SR’s clarification and thank them for their prompt response.
