Hotnews.ro
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Hotnews.ro is a Romania
n news site. It was founded in October 1999 by a group of financial journalists under the name revistapresei.ro and contained articles from outside sources put together as a press review. It was rebranded HotNews.ro in 2005. As of December 2008, they claim to have between 80,000 and 90,000 daily visitors.
Located in Bucharest
, the company employed more than 50 journalists in 2008. Its advertising
sales for 2007 stood between €600,000 and €700,000.
laws. As a result, Romanian web-users tend to view the site as plagiarizing
other news outlets and scornfully nicknamed it Hoţnews (Hoţ meaning thief in Romanian), even though Cristian Pantazi, Hotnews' editor-in-chief, claims that 90% of the articles published are now produced in-house.
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n news site. It was founded in October 1999 by a group of financial journalists under the name revistapresei.ro and contained articles from outside sources put together as a press review. It was rebranded HotNews.ro in 2005. As of December 2008, they claim to have between 80,000 and 90,000 daily visitors.
Located in Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
, the company employed more than 50 journalists in 2008. Its advertising
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
sales for 2007 stood between €600,000 and €700,000.
Accusations of plagiarism
In its early years, Hotnews, being a press review site, was accused of copy-pasting articles from other sources with little regards for CopyrightCopyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
laws. As a result, Romanian web-users tend to view the site as plagiarizing
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work, but the notion remains problematic with nebulous...
other news outlets and scornfully nicknamed it Hoţnews (Hoţ meaning thief in Romanian), even though Cristian Pantazi, Hotnews' editor-in-chief, claims that 90% of the articles published are now produced in-house.
External links
- Hotnews homepage (Romanian)
- Hotnews homepage (English)