Some information, including a quote, from The Gulf News appeared without proper attribution in a story about Newfoundland’s first porcupine in the Oct. 27 National Post. The Post regrets the oversight. The offending story is online and doesn’t include this “clarification.” It also doesn’t include any credit or attribution to the Gulf News. The Gulf [...]
Denver Post sports columnist Woody Paige has apologized for using quotes gathered by SportsBusiness Journal and not attributing them to the publication. A report from Westword: Woody Paige wrote about one of his employers using a forum provided by the other one in “ESPN Empire One Great Story,” published in Sunday’s Denver Post. Problem is, [...]
Carol Wainio runs the Media Culpa blog, which frequently highlight errors made in Canadian newspapers. She also recently had a complaint against a columnist with the Ottawa Citizen upheld by the Ontario Press Council. She recently published a series of posts about Margaret Wente, a high profile columnist with The Globe And Mail, a national [...]
Editor's note: A story in Saturday's paper about the debate in Wellesley over a school trip to a mosque inappropriately used material from a story published on a local website. Comments attributed to parents Ute Smith and Mary Crown were taken from an article that first appeared Friday morning on Patch.com's Wellesley site. The use [...]
It’s a depressing job, but somebody’s got to do it. Below is my annual round-up of the year in plagiarism and fabrication. The good news is that there were fewer incidents than in 2008. Please email me if I’ve missed anything. January None! February New York Daily News reporter Rosemary Black stole two paragraphs and [...]
Our report "Jools Holland’s castle joins band of at-risk monuments" (June 23) referred to Saltwood Castle in Kent and its owner Jane Clark, who has succeeded in having Saltwood removed from English Heritage’s at-risk register. The information and quotes about Saltwood were taken from an article by Robin Stummer in the latest edition of Cornerstone, [...]
In her weekend column, the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd included a sentence that later turned out to be taken almost verbatim from Talking Points Memo. (Compare here.) She failed to include any attribution, and this caused TPM and others to accuse her of plagiarism. Dowd emailed a response to the allegations to the Nytpicker [...]
An article about Adam Carroll, A1 Grand Prix championship driver, published online under the heading Adam Carroll aiming for formula one after A1GP success, 5 May, failed to acknowledge that the quotes from Carroll used in the piece came from an interview by Will Buxton published in the 4 May issue of GPWeek, an online [...]
