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Journalist Ian Urbina accused of using his NYT email after leaving the publication to solicit musicians for songs about the ocean, which he then published for personal gain

"The allegations are troubling," said a NYT spokesperson

inputmag.com/culture/ian-ur…

Benn Jordan, in a video, says that the former NYT reporter "creat[ed] a marketing scheme that resulted in him collecting the majority of royalties for an immense collection of music that he did not write."

Jordan claims that the work of 462 artists were accumulated by the former NYT reporter in this way, leading to hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners on Spotify for Ian -- who never wrote any music.

In the contracts former NYT reporter Ian Urbina signed, he is considered a 'co-writer' of the music, and he's now listed as a co-writer of more than 2K songs

forbes.com/sites/alleneli…