May 9, 2005

By Greg Gatlin
Boston Herald
Published: 5/7/05

Excerpt:



Additionally, MIT’s Technology Review cut ties to a freelancer whose stories couldn’t be corroberated. And the Worcester Telegram & Gazette fired sports reporter Ken Powers in February after discovering he’d lifted parts of a column written by Sports Illustrated’s Peter King. (Powers later filed a grievance citing wrongful termination.) 

Bob Steele, director of the Poynter Institute’s journalism ethics program, said the most noteworthy fact is that many of the plagiarism incidents involved veteran journalists.

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