Sunday Telegraph plagiarism story

The Sunday Telegraph, byline banditry and a spot of ‘plagiarism…’

Recently a broadsheet newspaper lifted almost 1000 words of a story I wrote for The Sun newspaper and printed it without any payment or even checking the story out. So what happens if you are writing a blog or you are a journalist. Should you expect your copy will be lifted, should you bother to say anything and does it matter? I look at the laws and discuss why I believe it does matter and is not ethical…

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How to remove a negative online review

Coping with a bad review on a website…

It’s the nightmare for any business. You wake up, click online and there on the internet is a bad review about your company.

Maybe it’s a fair comment. Perhaps a customer didn’t get as good a service as normal. But more often than not you will feel the review is unfair, wrong and even defamatory.
The question is what to do about it? Here I give ten tips to help cope with a bad website review…

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