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Feder: Tribune backs ex-reporter fired by Washington Post

Chicago Tribune editors say they "found no problems" after reviewing the work of an award-winning former reporter who recently was fired after eight months at the Washington Post. Marwa Eltagouri was dismissed in late June before completing the Post's nine-month probation for new employees, according to the newspaper, after it discovered evidence of "lax attribution" in at least a dozen stories aggregated from other news sources. Get the full report and more Chicago media news at robertfeder.com.