January 11, 2008 – 8:00 am
It appears that Radar magazine produces some very enticing content. Last year, a Chilean magazine plagiarized from Radar’s Toxic Bachelors feature. Then, this past Sunday, the London Sunday Times “inadvertently” plagiarized content from a Radar piece, “100 Reasons Why You’re Still Single.” A report from the Guardian:
A piece headlined “50 Reasons Why You’re Still Single” [...]
January 8, 2008 – 8:00 am
John McIntyre, the Baltimore Sun’s assistant managing editor for the copy desk, has written an excellent blog post about plagiarism and fabrication. McIntyre is the language and usage guru at the paper. He uses that knowledge base to offer up a list of ways to spot a plagiarist or fabulist. These should be provided to [...]
January 3, 2008 – 8:00 am
An alert reader pointed us to an apology contained in the Dec 31 issue of the Weekly Standard. The magazine admits that an article by David Satter contained “several passages…taken without attribution from Jonas Bernstein’s articles in the Eurasia Daily Monitor.” The magazine avoids the “p” word, but does include an example of an offending [...]
December 17, 2007 – 8:00 am
An Editor’s Note:
In the Statesman’s Schools column on Wednesday’s Page B2 , the first three paragraphs of an item about school breakfasts were taken nearly verbatim from a news release by the Center for Public Policy Priorities. It is not the American-Statesman’s practice to print items from outside sources verbatim and without proper credit. We [...]
December 11, 2007 – 6:00 am
This is the least enjoyable part of running this site, but we suppose somebody’s got to do it. Herewith, a month-by-month report of instances of plagiarism and fabrication in the press. Of particular note is the high number of incidents of plagiarism at student newspapers this year. A disturbing trend, to be sure.
January
A columnist and [...]
November 20, 2007 – 8:00 am
Our article on Ugandan guards working in Iraq, written for us by a freelance journalist in Uganda, was drawn substantially from an article published previously in Uganda’s Daily Monitor and written by David Herbert. We were, of course, unaware of this. We apologise to Mr Herbert, the Daily Monitor and our readers. Link
This is a [...]
November 13, 2007 – 8:00 am
This has already been a bad year for plagiarism at student newspapers, but this latest incident, spotted by Romenesko, is very surprising. A professor at the Missouri School of Journalism has lost his column in a university paper staffed by journalism students and faculty after admitting he committed “unintentional” plagiarism. From a story in [...]
November 13, 2007 – 8:00 am
Talk about burying the lead.
After spending the majority of his column chastising a television station and newspaper for lifting material from his paper, San Antonio Express-News public editor Bob Richter finally gets around to the real news: his paper recently fired a sports reporter for committing plagiarism.
…veteran E-N sports staffer Harry Page was terminated last [...]
November 9, 2007 – 8:00 am
A columnist at the Brown Daily Herald, a student newspaper, has been fired after editors discovered that six of his columns included plagiarized material. The same writer also plagiarized in a letter to the editor that was recently published in the New York Times. The Times published an Editor’s Note yesterday, and the student paper [...]
October 26, 2007 – 6:00 am
Blair J. Parker, a sports reporter at the News Leader in Staunton, Virginia, was fired on Tuesday after an internal investigation revealed she “fabricated at least four stories and plagiarized from other stories on the Internet.”
Parker was suspended last week after a story she wrote was revealed to have been made up of parts plagiarized [...]
August 21, 2007 – 8:00 am
A short introduction to an article about Russian oligarchs included three paragraphs that were substantially similar to paragraphs contained in the introduction to another, earlier, article, published in May, in the Exile – an English-language newspaper based in Moscow. We should not have used material from the Exile in our introduction without quoting and crediting [...]
August 21, 2007 – 8:00 am
Romenesko spotted a strange case of “self-plagiarism” yesterday: a reporter for the Explorer, weekly paper in Arizona, was fired after he/she was found to have taken a story written for a journalism class and, with a few minor updates, passed it off as new work. Aside from the dishonesty, one of the problems was that [...]
Some portions of an article about Hollywood romantic comedies (Boy meets girl: it always ends in tears, Screen, May 10) should have been attributed to Joe Neumaier in a New York Daily News article on the same subject from January 28, 2007.
We regret the error Link
And Joe Neumaier agrees this is plagiarism. He contacted the [...]
One of the poems that KidsPost published as part of its poetry contest on Tuesday was not written by the child who submitted it. The poem that appeared as “Who Am I?” was actually written by J. Patrick Lewis and published in his book “Monumental Verses.” The child who sent the poem to KidsPost said [...]
IvyGate has the details on an incident of plagiarism at the Daily Pennsylvanian, a student newspaper. It also previously reported on an incident at the Yale Daily News. From IvyGate:
The DP fired columnist Jamie France ‘10 this weekend after her column on caffeine Friday bore uncanny similarities to a Yahoo! Food piece from March. The [...]
April 12, 2007 – 10:00 am
After many blogs (Gawker, TV Newser etc.) put out calls for the name of the CBS producer fired this week for plagiarism, David Blum has named her in a story in today’s New York Sun. “In an era when plagiarists get dismissed and outed weekly by their employers at news organizations around the country, the [...]
A producer at CBS News has been fired after plagiarizing from the Wall Street Journal for a video essay on “Couric & Co.,” the Katie Couric/group blog on the CBS News website. AP reports the essay was removed and an editor’s note has been placed on the site. We searched the blog in question [...]
Is it plagiarism or just a remarkable coincidence? Give a read for yourself:
An essay in the Book Review on March 4, “Confessions of a Book Abuser,” by Ben Schott, defended the ways people physically “mistreat” books. Readers have subsequently pointed out a number of resemblances between Schott’s essay and “Never Do That to a Book,” [...]
An Editor’s Note. See this similar, though much more serious incident.
A letter in most editions yesterday, by Syed Waris Shere, writing from Brooklyn, discussed Vice President Dick Cheney and the verdict in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr.
After the newspaper started printing, the letter was posted on our Web site, where an alert reader, [...]
A Boston Globe sports columnist has been accused of plagiarism by coldhardfootballfacts.com. The paper says it is looking into the allegations. Editor & Publisher has a story up about it, and here is the post from coldhardfootballfacts.com. E&P:
Similarities between a Sunday story by a Boston Globe sportswriter and a piece written a week earlier by [...]
February 23, 2007 – 3:00 pm
The third time’s the charm at the Michigan Daily, a student newspaper. A letter from its editor:
Several articles that have recently appeared in these pages have been found to contain plagiarism…They are:
- “Didn’t get your ‘Kicks?’ indie group struggles with coherent live act” (11/15/06): This piece contained language taken from The Harvard Crimson and chartattack.com.
- [...]
February 7, 2007 – 8:00 am
An Editor’s Note:
A story published in the business section of MSNBC.com Feb. 1 on how to sell a home in the slow winter season contained material that was substantially similar to an article on the same topic previously published on About.com.
The story, which was submitted by an MSNBC.com contributor, has been removed from the [...]
January 4, 2007 – 8:00 am
A columnist and the administrative assistant to the editor at the San Antonio Express-News resigned after she was found plagiarizing from Wikipedia and other sources in three columns. From a column by the paper’s public editor:
…The initial investigation found information, taken from Wikipedia, a free Internet encyclopedia, was published in the Watchdog column on Page [...]
The LA Times ran a lengthy Editor’s Note that outlines the inaccuracies, “substandard” reporting methods and unverifiable quotes in two stories by reporter Eric Slater. He has been fired by the paper. The story has been picked up by Editor & Publisher, Reuters, the Chico Enterprise Record, and LAObserved.com. The last two publications are credited [...]
