Plagiarism, Plagiarizing and Copy and Paste in News Media

Plagiarism Questions about Fox News’ Oliver North’s Column

A column by Fox News host and authorOliver North has been questioned for including plagiarism of a Vietnam War veteran's 1990...

The Poughkeepsie Journal apologized to the Daily Freeman and readers for a "thin rewrite" of the Freeman's story and some...

We wrote earlier this month about accusations of plagiarism against a column written by Fox News' Oliver North. North had quoted...

The New Yorker added an editor's note to a June 12 article "Why Smart People are Stupid" to note that...

Jonah Lehrer apologized this week for re-using his own writing for other publications in his five blog posts for the...

The Connecticut SPJ has asked SPJ member, "media lawyer and Syracuse professor" Roy S. Gutterman to "conduct the independent investigation"...

A Michigan school superintendent resigned a little more than a month after he apologized for plagiarism. As we wrote in...

Steve Penn claims The Kansas City Star defamed him when it reported on firing him for plagiarism, the newspaper reported....

National Public Radio unpublished and replaced an article that partially plagiarized with an editor's note, Poynter's Steve Myers reported. NPR's...