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Article: Salt Lake Tribune lays out facts about Smart story.(Brief Article)
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- PR Week (US)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2003
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SALT LAKE CITY: The Salt Lake Tribune held little back last week in explaining to its readers a journalistic scandal that cost two reporters their jobs after they sold misinformation about the Elizabeth Smart case to a supermarket tabloid.
Though its editors did not return calls seeking comment, the newspaper's communications strategy was clear from a trio of statements it released after the reporters were dismissed. The statements - one made by the publisher at a newspaper-industry conference, one written by an editor that ran in The Tribune, and another by a group of reporters - reflected an effort to lay bare not only the facts of the ethical imbroglio, but ...