Typically, when a news organization decides to remove a piece of reporting from its website after publication, a best practice is to acknowledge it publicly and explain what happened.
Sure, it might be embarrassing, but in the long run doing so builds credibility with an audience. These days it’s hard for things to really disappear from the Internet anyway, and because of social media (and newsletters like this) newsroom SNAFUs don’t tend to just float down the river unnoticed.
One local TV station in Colorado Springs is learning that this week after Pueblo Chieftain reporter Anna Lynn Winfrey pointed out on social media that one of the station’s reporters appeared to have cribbed language from her reporting.
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