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 [...]
January 2, 2006 – 8:01 am
When we came across this editorial(we’ve struck “editorial” because according to Antonia Zerbisias of the Star it is a) brief from the Star’s weekend Life section(found via Fark) it made our day:
Moon God Drinking Products Co., a skin care company in China, has
offered a bounty of 1,000 yuan ($144) for every typographical or
literary error found [...]
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 [...]
The daily newspaper in St. John’s, Newfoundland ran an apology on page A6 this past Friday. While it said the paper “discovered several articles that contain plagiarized material,” and mentioned that the offending reporter was no longer working for the paper, it still fell way short of a proper apology. It says there were “at [...]
February 3, 2005 – 8:00 am
A sports writer from the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Massachusetts, has been hit with allegations of plagiarism. According to AP, he has been “sent home from the Super Bowl after he allegedly plagiarized parts of his column from Sports Illustrated.” (Are we the only ones who think that sentence makes it sound like [...]
January 12, 2005 – 8:01 am
The San Francisco Chronicle has run a correction stating that a freelance journalist plagiarized (though they don’t use that word) from an article that originally appeared in The Guardian back in November. It also notes that the article first appeared in the International Herald Tribune — but we can’t find any notice from that paper [...]
