Plagiarism & unauthorized content scraping by LA Times is critical journalism issue, investigative researchers like me bear brunt of this behavior
LA Times reporter Clara Harter published my exclusive Ladera Ranch expose of July 25th, 2026 on Sunday Aug 30, 2026 about the two old Oil & Gas wells that I found under Ladera Ranch in Orange County CA after doing weeks of research. The information about the oil wells under Ladera Ranch CA was a highly technical story, involving multiple overlapping public records, historical data, searches online at Cal-Gem for abandoned Oil & Gas wells near Ladera Ranch CA, an d examining environmental studies. I even sent the LA Times a detailed email about the Oil & Gas wells under Ladera Ranch CA to their Tip-Line on Saturday morning Aug 29th, 2026, the day before the LA Times published my information! LA Times used my priority independent investigative work, as their own, uncredited even after I sent them a news tip about the Ladera Ranch CA oil wells on Saturday morn Aug 29, 2026. My independent investigation of rare cancer cluster in Ladera Ranch CA and two abandoned oil ...