Proper Attribution and Ethics in the News

Fareed Zakaria: Accusation of Quote-Lifting ‘Totally Bogus’

Fareed Zakaria has been accused of lifting a quote for his 2008 book The Post-American World from a 2005 book by Clyde...

TIME magazine corrected a July 28 article after apparently lifting a quote and sentence from the New York Post's story...

ESPN called its entertainment writer Lynn Hoppes' taking content from Wikipedia for stories "an example of journalistic laziness" and "short...

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

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

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

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

Steve Buttry outlined his "aggregation guidelines" of "link, attribute, add value" in a May 16 blogpost. Buttry noted that "aggregation...

Arthur Brisbane will step down as New York Times public editor Sept. 1, according to the Washington Post's Erik Wemple. ...