The Shorenstein Center for Press and Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has some interesting speakers scheduled this month, including Seth Mnookin, who will discuss his book Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media on Tuesday, November 16, at 12 noon in the Kalb Seminar Room, [...]
In the May 2004 Atlantic Monthly, Howell Raines, former New York Times executive editor, writes about Jayson Blair and what happened after his errors and fabrications came to light about a year ago. Excerpts of the article are available through the link above.
It can be enough work checking for plagiarism among a newspaper’s own staff. The subscribers-only Chronicle of Higher Education recently published articles about two academics who plagariazied pieces they wrote for newspapers.
The president of Central Connecticut State University plagiarized portions of an opinion piece The Hartford Courant published. He recently announced his retirement in July. [...]
This article announces the Dallas Fort-Worth Star-Telegram’s efforts to monitor their staff’s writing for plagiarism and fabrication.
“The Star-Telegram is responding, effective immediately, with a permanent fact-checking policy designed to help keep staffers alert to the dangers of plagiarism and fabrication. The policy also aims to assure readers that this newspaper’s constant goal is to earn [...]
Jayson Blair is a former New York Times and Boston Globe reporter who lost his job because editors determined he plagiarized and fabricated some of his work. The New York Times has released some kind of archive of his work. Unfortunately, it crashes both of the browsers I use, so I can’t get to it [...]
Bob Stepno has some thoughts about how news Web sites can improve informing their readers of corrections. He found several articles related to a journalism error that were not linked together. The initial article that started the reporting of the errors had no correction notes on it. He reports this particular lack of links seems [...]
LIS News reports that a book by Jayson Blair, the former New York Times and Boston Globe reporter who admitted plagiarizing and fabricating sources for some of his articles last year, should be published in early March. The book discusses his actions that led to him losing his job and the loss of an executive [...]
An inquiry into the BBC’s report that the British government exaggerated claims of Iraqi weapons found errors in the way the report was constructed and how the management handled the situation. Director General Greg Dyke and Chairman Gavyn Davies have resigned in the wake of the report.
Addendum 1/30: Garrett sent me an article about the [...]
The radio show Fresh Air recently broadcast an interview with Charles Lane, a former editor of The New Republic, about uncovering fabrications in the work of writer Stephen Glass. It’s a fascinating look at what an editor goes through to investigate the allegations and decide how to react to them. The truthfulness of [...]
One of my blog readers forwarded me something he found strange:
He read Folio Magazine’s October column “Small Magazines we adore” and couldn’t find the name of the magazine anywhere in the column. The initials are given in passing, but the magazine is never fully identified. He figures the print edition has an image [...]