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Primetime Plagiarism

When incidents of plagiarism come to light in the publishing world, the consequences are regrettable for all involved.

Accusations of plagiarism in recent years have done irrevocable damage to the reputations of Pulitzer-Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin and best-selling author Stephen Ambrose and brought down New York Times reporter Jayson Blair (and two of his editors).

Pulitzer Prize-Winner and Former Harvard Professor Doris Kearns Goodwin
Goodwin's publisher paid an undisclosed sum to author Lynne McTaggert for an improperly documented 50 phrases taken from McTaggert's Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times and published in Goodwin's The Fitzgerald's and the Kennedys.

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Best-Selling and Popular Historian Stephen Ambrose
Ambrose, the author of over 30 books, was accused of plagiarizing from multiple sources in his books because he did not place quotation marks around directly quoted material.

Read more about it: Former New York Times Reporters Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair is perhaps the most infamous of plagiarists in recent times. Blair resigned from the New York Times after having been caught fabricating and plagiarizing portions of over 30 articles.

 

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Reporter says he "never meant to hurt anyone"
Top New York Times editors quit

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Last revised July 01, 2009 - 11:44 AM