Washington Post publicity people regularly send article links to Gawker
At the bottom of a Gawker piece defending the blog’s repackaging of a Washington Post story, we receive this little nugget:
But if you’re going to fixate on blog links as the death knell of the industry, we have a lead for you: The threat is coming from inside the building. Nearly every day — 26 times in July alone — a Washington Post staffer not only sends us links to its expensive reporting but even pulls out the most interesting quotes so as to make it easier to pirate. I have strong feelings about revealing the identity of any Gawker tipster, but in this case it seems the public interest is simply too pressing and we must reveal this threat to journalism:
Maria Cereghino
Manager, Communications
Washington Post Media
[...] — by repackaging his story — had somehow unfairly cashed in on his reporting, it was revealed that Gawker regularly receives emails from Washington Post publicity people supplying links to the [...]