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TU getting scooped on its own stories (updated 2x)

For the second time in two months, The New York Times has scooped the Albany Times Union on its own story, which TU Editor Rex Smith is apparently too chicken either to publish or debunk. Send him to the knacker's yard.

Update: The TU, to its credit, gets around to updating the story.

Second update: And TU reporter Jimmy Vielkind has another update in a different forum.

Times Union settles with Newspaper Guild

"The Times Union of Albany has agreed to offer reinstatement to three employees and to pay more than $800,000 in backpay and interest to a total of 11 employees who were laid off by the newspaper in the fall of 2009 in order to settle a case taken up by the National Labor Relations Board."

So says the first sentence of today's NLRB press release. I've followed the case in this blog, so post this update.