The Daily News picked up a story from Ink Lake via Gothamist but neglected to attribute the story. Here’s an excerpt from Ink Lake about what happened:

When I wrote on Wednesday about the missing shoe on the Upper West Side, I was glad to see the story was picked up by Gothamist. That night, I got e-mail from Moshe Billet, the shoe-finder, saying the Daily News must have read my blog, because they had contacted him. I wrote back, saying that I was sure they had first seen it in Gothamist.

So the next day, I was happy, and not surprised to see the story in the News, and on their web site. But I was kind of surprised to see nothing mentioning that this was in fact, my story.

I called the News’s City Desk, and asked to be connected to Bill Hutchinson, the reporter whose byline the story ran under. I got his voice-mail, and left a message.

After a couple of hours, I hadn’t heard back from him, and was getting more and more annoyed. I called Hutchinson again. This time, he picked up…

Read the rest at Ink Lake