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iMediaEthics Article On CEN Charging HuffPost For Re-Reporting Its Stories

Screenshot of an iMediaEthics article by Sydney Smith, published on 15 June 2015, titled “European News Agency Charges HuffPost for Re-Reporting its Stories, HuffPost Says Payment Unintentional”. The article reports on Central European News billing The Huffington Post over two stories that CEN said had been re-reported without consent, following earlier Press Gazette coverage of HuffPost’s payment to CEN. Its significance is that it documents the wider copyright and attribution dispute between CEN and digital publishers, showing that the issue was not merely one isolated invoice but part of a continuing argument over whether online outlets could rewrite or re-report agency material while avoiding payment. In the wider BuzzFeed/CEN narrative, the record helps establish that CEN’s concern was not simply reputational defence after BuzzFeed, but a long-running challenge to the digital media culture in which publishers could benefit from agency reporting, then minimise or deny the value of the original work.

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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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