Argus Leader retracts 11 stories after review finds fishy quotes and information
The (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) Argus Leader on Wednesday announced that it had retracted 11…
June 7, 2017
Plagiarism
Jonah Lehrer remembers the moment his career was shattered
Jonah Lehrer was about to go on stage before 1,000 people in the summer of…
February 6, 2017
4 guidelines for aggregating news content
Media consumers are bombarded with information from an ever-growing range of sources. Many journalists and…
February 2, 2017
4 guidelines to avoid fabrication in your news coverage
Fabrication in news publishing can take many forms, from creating sources and embellishing stories to…
August 30, 2016
4 guidelines to avoid plagiarizing
Poynter has just launched a new course about avoiding plagiarism and fabrication, created by Geanne…
August 4, 2016
Welcome to post-plagiarism America
If I harvested all the essays I’ve written about plagiarism since the 1980s, there would…
July 19, 2016
NY Daily News editor: ‘I accept 100% of the blame’
Jotham Sederstrom, the editor who was fired from the New York Daily News for removing…
April 21, 2016
New York Daily News fires editor for deleting attribution
The New York Daily News on Tuesday fired an editor after unearthing a pattern of…
April 19, 2016
Plagiarism questions at Chicago paper owned by a state legislator
Better Government Association The Better Government Association (BGA), a Chicago-based investigative journalism nonprofit, has accused…
March 20, 2015
Providence Journal denies accusations of plagiarism
The Providence Journal has denied allegations made by a local news site that it cribbed…
March 4, 2015
Uber’s plan to alienate the news media seems to be going well
Story gets good pickup.
November 19, 2014
Should student newspapers name fabulists and plagiarists?
Last October, Megan Card searched through more than two years’ worth of stories in University…
November 18, 2014
5 Zakaria articles are ‘problematic,’ Washington Post says
Plagiarism, patch writing, press release appropriation.
November 10, 2014
School board candidate says plagiarism was due to a mistake
Thing is, plagiarism among schools officials is not uncommon.
October 9, 2014
Tallahassee Democrat sports reporter resigns after plagiarizing: ‘I am sincerely sorry’
Tallahassee Democrat A Florida State University sports reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat has resigned after…
October 3, 2014
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