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Press Gazette Byline Bandits Article Documents Agencies Losing Credit For Their Own Copy

This archived screenshot preserves a Press Gazette comment article titled “Byline bandits at The Independent accused of taking credit for agency copy”, published on 29 July 2013. The screenshot is significant because it records a long-standing problem in agency journalism: newspapers and online publishers using wire or agency copy while placing their own staff bylines on it, making the original reporting work invisible to readers and weakening public understanding of how news is actually produced. The item matters in the wider CEN/newsX evidence chain because BuzzFeed later treated the limited visibility of CEN bylines and agency attribution as suspicious, even though the Press Gazette article shows that unattributed or re-bylined agency copy was a recognised industry practice rather than evidence of a hidden fake-news operation. It also helps document the wider economic problem facing agencies and freelancers: publishers could rely heavily on agency work while stripping away credit, recognition and proof of authorship, leaving the original reporters with less reputational value from the journalism they created.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – Archived Web Screenshots

Europe Media newsX CIC Published 3 May 2026 at 13:59 Source: 16 July 2016

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