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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged plagiarism

1. July 16, 2012 10:50 AM

   Do they get that it’s wrong?

   Journalism students can be "truly baffled" when confronted for plagiarism

   By Kristal Brent Zook

   Perhaps Liane Membis, the Wall Street Journal intern fired recently for inventing quotes, started out with noble intentions. As Miss Black America-Connecticut last year, she spoke against high illiteracy rates among African American children and of wanting to represent black women “in a positive light.” We’d assume that Membis, a Yale graduate, brought these ideals to her internship at one...

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2. September 2, 2011 02:17 PM

   Escape From Thailand

   A simple story about plagiarism forced me to flee a country I love

   By Erika Fry

   Editors’ Note: this is a companion piece to the Darts & Laurels column that appears in the September/October 2011 issue of CJR, and that will be available at cjr.org on September 22. Thailand is known as the Land of Smiles. In 2009, I spent a hot December day in the Land of Smiles, in jail. Initially, this seemed mildly amusing...

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3. September 2, 2011 03:31 PM

   Escape From Thailand

   A simple story about plagiarism forced me to flee a country I love

   By Erika Fry

   Editors’ Note: this is a companion piece to the Darts & Laurels column that appears in the September/October 2011 issues of CJR, and that will be available at cjr.org on September 22. Thailand is known as the Land of Smiles. In 2009, I spent a hot December day in the Land of Smiles, in jail. Initially, this seemed mildly amusing...

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4. June 20, 2012 12:53 PM

   How Jonah Lehrer should blog

   The art of glossing the news

   By Felix Salmon

   In the wake of the revelations that Jonah Lehrer is a serial self-plagiarist, Josh Levin declares that if you’re an “ideas man”, you shouldn’t be a blogger: For professional thinkers like Gladwell and Lehrer, the key to maintaining a remunerative career is to milk your best ideas until there’s no liquid left and pray you’ve bought yourself enough time to...

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5. October 18, 2011 10:34 AM

   Link-Phobia and Plagiarism

   By Felix Salmon

   Jack Shafer has an unforgiving take on l’affaire Kendra Marr: The plagiarist defrauds readers by leading them to believe that he has come by the facts of his story first-hand-that he vouches for the accuracy of the facts and interpretations under his byline. But this is not the case. Generally, the plagiarist doesn’t know whether the copy he’s lifted has...

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6. August 21, 2012 10:49 AM

   Stories I’d like to see

   Fareed Zakaria's "mistake"

   By Steven Brill

   In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. Suppose I steal my neighbor Jill's flat-screen television and install it in my living room. Jill or one of her friends who knows about Jill's missing television comes...

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7. August 15, 2012 04:30 PM

   UPDATED: Crime and punishment

   As Zakaria stands trial, Lehrer gets an undeserved pardon

   By Curtis Brainard

   As Fareed Zakaria’s trial-by-blogosphere for alleged plagiarism continues, Jonah Lehrer, whom the same jury convicted of fabricating quotes last month, has received a measure of clemency from an old employer. Last week, Time magazine and CNN suspended Zakaria for borrowing passages from a New Yorker article, without attribution, in pieces he wrote about gun control for both outlets. But critics...

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8. August 17, 2012 04:10 PM

   UPI shirks responsibility

   Raeburn takes wire to task for cribbing from Science News

   By Curtis Brainard

   The plagiarism, or problematic paraphrasing, parade continued on Thursday as several reporters from Science News complained on Facebook that the wire service UPI had cribbed their stories. Reporting on the charges, the Knight Science Journalism Tracker’s Paul Raeburn laid out three examples of passages from Science News articles that UPI reporters loosely rewrote and included in their own pieces. Raeburn...

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