Monday, October 10, 2011

Robbery: Attribution

It's hard to have over-attribution in journalism. But it's possible.

For example, if you have no change in sources in a graf with a single source, then you only need one attribution per graf.

What that means is, in any single graf where Layoux is the only source, then you only need to use Layoux said once in that single graf, even if the graf is more than one sentence.

I noted over-attribution in your stories, but I did not mark down your grade for it.

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