Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher reports that the same personal finance column has appeared in papers across the country — under different bylines.
“For example, the column is found in the East Valley Tribune of Mesa, Ariz., on June 19. Titled, ‘Don’t let economy threaten retirement plans,’ it carries the byline of Rebecca Warren. She is identified as a financial planner for Warren Financial Services.
“The column, also ran in The Huntsville (Texas) Item on June 25, is almost identical, word for word, to the first. It carries the byline of Brian Smith as an Item correspondent. Publisher Dennis Garrison confirmed to E&P that Smith is a financial adviser for the local office of Global Financial Partners and writes a regular column for the paper, but does not receive a fee.
“The two pieces are so close that Google News treats them as ‘duplicates.'”
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I just discovered this post via Google Alert. The articles in question are sold by the Financial Planning Association. Anyone, including non-members, can subscribe to the articles. They come with explicit instructions that request attribution to the FPA unless they are "substantially" rewritten. I don't rewrite them so I attribute them to the FPA.
I just compared the piece that ran in the East Valley Tribune with the original FPA article. Aside from some light editing, they're the same. There's no new content - it really should have run with the FPA byline.