Timeline: backstory on NYT's boy-camwhore piece, $2,000 check

Xeni Jardin 5:52 pm Thu Mar 8, 2007

Regarding a $2,000 check paid to the teen subject of a 2005 teen camwhore profile in the New York Times, reporter Kurt Eichenwald "has some splainin' to do," says Gawker. The blog today published a purported timeline of previously undisclosed backstory: Link, but beware — the timeline came from a commenter, not a Gawker editor, and it's not like anyone factchecked it.

The unfolding scandal doesn't mean Eichenwald will lose a recently-won ethics award: Link (via Romenesko).

And there's a related piece today from Slate's media critic Jack Shafer here.

Reader comment: Doran says,

Kurt Eichenwald has written a multipart response to recent reports. Among his oberservations: "It is now abundantly clear to me why our profession has such an ungodly reputation among the public. "

Previously on BB:

Bloggers, media ethicists respond to NYT's camwhore story

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