IB employee fired for Russert Wikipedia edits
Don Day June 23rd, 2008
Last week an Internet Broadcasting employee edited Wikipedia with information on Tim Russert’s death before the news went wide. Now IB has fired the employee, according to the NY Times. An NBC News spokesperson said she and her colleagues were “flabbergasted” at the edit. NBC asked the other networks to hold the news until they could notify Russert’s family.
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1. Dingo | June 23rd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
It’s not the first time that an IB employee working for NBC has run into trouble like this. I don’t know all the details, but I heard that an IB editor over at our NBC competition here in chicago was let go after the Clinton campaign complained about an email that was sent from an NBC email address that they considered to be inapproprite.
2. Andrew | June 26th, 2008 at 8:54 am
I think it’s weak to fire this jr level employee…unusual circumstance…a mistake…corp guys covering their own ass…so they fire the jr….I know employees at IB are really upset with this…
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