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> Microsoft’s plans were reported earlier by The Information.

meta question but is it fair to report someone else’s scoop but bury that fact in the last sentence 4 paragraphs into the article? as a result of this burying Bloomberg gets to the top of HN rather than The Information which got the actual story. If I were that reporter i’d be pissed.

link to real source https://archive.ph/o/1ChFk/https://www.theinformation.com/ar...

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It really depends on the publication. In a past life, I was a newspaper reporter in a town with two papers. There were strict guidelines against doing this. If you lost the scoop, well, too bad.

I have seen this behavior more often in Europe but I guess it might be a thing in the US now too - I have been away from the day-to-day journalism scene for a long time.

I think the main reason the Bloomberg article got to the top rather than the source (theinformation) is that The Information is beyond a paywall that you can't bypass.

Good question about journalistic ethics.

How do you get past Bloomberg paywall?

There is a workaround link at the top of the thread. An important difference is that Bloomberg's paywall is intentionally semi-permeable - 'free' article limits, social media referrals, etc. The Information is (mostly?) an intentional 'hard' paywall - the content is only available to subscribers.

I still can't read the full story.

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