Politico Plagiarism Scandal: Reporter Resigns After Using Others' Work Without Attribution

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Politico says a reporter has resigned after editors determined she had plagiarized stories about transportation, most recently from a New York Times article.

Editor-in-chief John F. Harris and executive editor Jim VandeHei said in an online note that the stories by Kendra Marr "borrowed from the work of others, without attribution, in ways which we cannot defend and will not tolerate."

VandeHei confirmed the information on Thursday night.

A voicemail left at a cellphone number for Marr wasn't immediately returned.

Politico says a senior editor received an email from a Times writer Wednesday pointing out similarities in stories in the two publications. Editors say on Thursday when they compared the articles and six other pieces by Marr, they found "troubling similarities to work earlier published by others."

Politico is based in Arlington, Va.

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[John Lewis]

04:13 PM on 10/16/2011

This doesn't seem newsworthy. Politico isn't very trustworthy.

[Dbos]

03:41 PM on 10/16/2011

big repug reaganite propaganda machine.

[ConservativeAlways]

01:56 PM on 10/16/2011

doesn't this leftist-extremist tabloid do this all the time? where is the accountability HP?

[freddychef]

06:31 PM on 10/16/2011

here, they agregate other news sources and credit the original author and publication.
there, they copy other peoples work and call it their own original work.
i doubt after this explanation, that you get it.

[MacManLB]

12:06 PM on 10/16/2011

She is not the first Politico plagiarist and she won't be the last! She was just a convenient sacrifice to make it seem like they are a legitimate news organization.

[fredpa]

06:36 AM on 10/16/2011

Good call, Politico.

[turkeyfish]

11:17 PM on 10/15/2011

Too bad the Scott Brown campaign doesn't have the same high level of standards.

Mr. Brown. Have you revealed the name of the mysterious intern yet?

[MacManLB]

05:24 PM on 10/15/2011

They quickly said, oh but she is not like that black fellow who is somehow the face of plagiarism. Ain't that a b#@%h.

[wdw808]

05:03 PM on 10/15/2011

gee what a surprise

laughing

[El Chingaso]

03:29 PM on 10/15/2011

Was she educated in American public schools? If so, that explains the shortcuts...for many other reasons than simply violating journalistic integrity.

[skibum415]

03:01 PM on 10/15/2011

Well, someone's reputation has been ‘marr’ed.

[John michael Adams]

01:36 PM on 10/15/2011

so she copied... still better than faux news that... make up news out of thin ghastly air!

[HC says]

09:47 PM on 10/15/2011

So, do you believe she should be suspended? What does this story have to do with Fox News? Stick to the ethics of Politico, something I am assuming you hold in higher esteem than Fox? Is plagarism at the Politico OK with you?

[John michael Adams]

09:06 AM on 10/16/2011

no. i just think faux news should be penalized for making up news.

[mediamarv]

01:47 AM on 10/15/2011

*yawn* Again?

[JackTheSkipper]

10:22 PM on 10/14/2011

She can always open up a Chinese restaurant.

[DrObvious]

12:56 PM on 10/15/2011

??

[aquarius2001]

05:56 PM on 10/16/2011

Sorry. That fell way flat.

[Samurai Cowboy]

07:06 PM on 10/14/2011

She must be a Republican. They steal other peoples work all of the time and claim that they wrote it.

[tomcats4al]

09:06 PM on 10/14/2011

At least she did not make it up. Jason Blare, cough, cough. Bogus Bush National Guard letter, cough, cough.

[wdw808]

05:07 PM on 10/15/2011

at the politoco ........there are no conservatives

but thanks for playing

[ogates]

05:37 PM on 10/14/2011

Wonder if Scott Brown will hire her to write his speeches...

Birds of a feather...

[HC says]

09:49 PM on 10/15/2011

Joe Biden can hire her. Too bad plagarist Teddy Kennedy isn't still alive and trying to get back into Harvard, he could blame her for what got him expelled.