A letter from the editor of the Technician, the student paper at North Carolina State University I am dismayed to inform Technician readers of a case of plagiarism within the Student Media staff. Yesterday I received an email from a fellow college newspaper saying they suspected one of our staff columnists of plagiarizing a column [...]
Charles Apple, who writes a great blog about visual journalism for the American Copy Editors Society, spotted a major apology in the Northern Star, the student paper at the Northern Illinois University. The apology is for an offensive cartoon that made reference to shootings that occurred at the school in 2008. Apple has the offending [...]
While recognising that College societies may sometimes stray beyond their official raisons d’etre to pursue a wider range of interests, we were incorrect to report in our last issue that the Literary Society was hosting a “Boob Club†(What’s on this coming fortnight, page 9, October 14). They had, of course, settled for a Book [...]
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The Ubyssey, a student paper at the University of British Columbia, published this correction after a special satirical issue caused problems: On November 28, 2008, The Ubyssey published an article entitled “RCMP have ‘final solution’ to the ‘fraternity issue.’” The article in question was part of The Ubyssey’s annual all-satire edition. The Ubyssey and staff [...]
This is an early favorite for 2009′s Typo of the Year. The Daily Universe, a student paper at BYU, recalled and trashed the full printing (18,000 copies) of its Monday edition after discovering a typo. Notably, it was a typo that could have offended the Mormon chruch church. The paper issued a brief apology and [...]
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 [...]
