Posted on 03/17/2011 9:01:08 AM PDT by La Lydia
The Washington Post suspended one of its most seasoned reporters Wednesday after editors determined that “substantial” parts of two recent news articles were taken without attribution from another newspaper. Sari Horwitz, longtime Post investigative reporter, was suspended for three months for plagiarizing sections of stories that first appeared in the Arizona Republic. The stories concerned the investigation of...Jared Lee Loughner...
Horwitz copied two paragraphs from a Republic story ... when she wrote an article that was first published on The Post’s Web site March 4. A second story...included 10 paragraphs from a Republic story about a search of Loughner’s home. Both stories appeared in the newspaper the day after they went up online.
Some news organizations...have fired reporters for copying another journalist’s work and presenting it as their own. “For a long time, it was viewed as an excommunication sin, beyond mortal sin,” said Bob Steele, a professor of journalism ethics at DePauw University. “But nowadays, editors try to look at the full context of what happened and why it happened” ...
The Republic’s editor, Randy Lovely, alerted Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli to the similarities in the Republic and Post stories in an e-mail Monday...
The Post issued an apology to readers on its Web site Wednesday and is running an editor’s note on A2 of Thursday morning’s newspaper....
Horwitz, who joined The Post in 1984, is one of the newspaper’s most decorated reporters. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize with her colleague Scott Higham in 2002 for a series about the deaths of foster children...
She was also part of two teams of Post reporters who won Pulitzers — one for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007, and another for a 1998 series about shootings by members of the District police force...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Get out the BS Meter.
This lady should be fired. Period.
This seems to be the mode of operation for Post reporters.
The degradation in American education standards is obvious in journalistic quality.
Suspends??
Well, since the party affiliation wasn’t mentioned within the first five words of the article, we know she’s a Democrat...which means, considering what’s in there now, here is your next democrat Vice Presidential candidate.
Special Saint Patty’s Day tagline. Aye!
Arizona Republic should sue WaPo. No, a better idea: the respective editors should stand upon the Field of Honor and duel for their respective papers. I suggest SuperSoakers filled with concentrated ammonia at 10 paces.
It was only a dozen paragraphs. Nothing major. Inconsequential. Inadvertent. Perfectly ethical. In fact, the AZ Republic should thank her for making its reporting more widely seen in such a prestigious paper as the WaPo!
Really. I wonder why they think this improves their paper’s credibility.
Right. Don't steal from other reporters.
Shoddy reporting and misrepresentation of fact still is no problem...
It’s easy to get confused when you spend most of your time rephrasing talking points from the DNC.
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