By Jacques Steinberg
The New York Times
Published on 3/22/2004
Excerpt:
But a telephone call he made to the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism center in Florida, seeking guidance set him on a different path. Mr. Wiest, whose daily newspaper has an average circulation around 12,000, said that Kelly McBride, an ethics instructor at Poynter, invoked the name of Mr. Blair and urged him to investigate further. In the end, Mr. Wiest found that the reporter, Michael Kinney, then 29, had copied the work of others without attribution in at least two dozen movie reviews and sports columns.
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