Jeff Sonderman for Poynter:

Jenna Myers Karvunidis says the Chicago Tribune and its Red Eye commuter paper seem to be “stealing scoops” from her and other amateur bloggers on the Tribune-owned ChicagoNow site.

This echoes TechCrunch alum MG Siegler’s recent rant at the Wall Street Journal, which he alleged stole his scoop about Apple’s acquisition of Chomp.

More than ever, journalists need to be careful to document their research and newspapers need to make sure that attribution rules are clearly spelled out.