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Unemployed For Years, Professor Turns To Ghostwriting For Students

2012-04-09T14:15:31Z

Jennifer Sunseri lost her job as an assistant professor in 2009. Now, after nearly three years of unemployment, no health insurance, and diminished ho...

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Food Network Star Reportedly Fired For Recipe Plagiarism

2012-02-16T12:58:16Z

Pastry chef Anne Thornton, host of Food Network show "Desserts First," has been fired (and her show cancelled) for an allegedly plagiarizing several r...

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Anastasia Rubis: 'Tis the Season, for Student Plagiarizing

2011-12-23T13:58:13Z

If students want to circumvent their addiction, and avoid academic trouble, they can do what I've done in previous paragraphs. Use those funny little things called quotation marks and give credit where credit is due.

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Brian Joseph Davis: Reading Traffic Reports to Obama

2011-12-13T15:19:51Z

If writing and the avant-garde have a node point in 2011, it's poet and critic Kenneth Goldsmith.

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Andrew Losowsky: The Man Who Couldn't Stop Lying

2011-11-14T20:15:07Z

This is the strange and sad tale of a writer who couldn't fulfill his potential through legal means--and so started to copy from the best.

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Sales Soar For Plagiarized Book

2011-11-09T11:56:21Z

NEW YORK — Here's an unusual way to boost sales: Have the publisher withdraw a novel because it contained passages lifted from other authors.

A...

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Why Was This Author's Book Pulled From The Shelves?

2011-11-08T12:49:43Z

NEW YORK — A debut spy novel, Q.R. Markham's "Assassin of Secrets," was pulled Tuesday after its publisher said it discovered that numerous pass...

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Ellen Siminoff: Discouraging Internet Plagiarism

2011-10-28T10:40:37Z

It's important for educators to accept that this is a real and widespread issue, and to bring it up themselves in the classroom rather than just sweep it under the rug and hope no one goes snooping for it.

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Do Teen Cheaters Become Adult Cheaters?

2011-10-27T12:12:05Z

Katie, a senior at Plainfield North who asked for her last name to be withheld, felt confident that she was prepared for her AP Statistics exam. But w...

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Isabel Kaplan: Not in Someone Else's Words

2011-10-22T16:15:39Z

I have thought about and read Goldsmith and his work, although perhaps the reading was unnecessary. Goldsmith doesn't want people to actually read his books.

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Scott Brown Blames Summer Intern For Plagiarism

2011-10-14T10:33:00Z

WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) -- Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown blamed his staff Thursday for passages about his upbringing on his official Sena...

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Politico Reporter Kendra Marr Resigns After Editors Discover Incidents of Plagiarism

2011-10-14T00:51:25Z

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

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Isabel Kaplan: In Someone Else's Words

2011-09-26T14:03:26Z

The number of writers who repurpose other writers' words and call it legitimate original artwork (not to mention the number of advocates for such a practice) is -- very disconcertingly -- on the rise.

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College Plagiarism Reaches All-Time High

2011-09-01T19:35:11Z

Cyber-plagiarism is at an all time high among college students, according to a survey of college presidents from the Pew Research Center.

It appe...

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Romance Author Accuses Other Of Plagiarism

2011-08-05T11:07:26Z

Dame Barbara Cartland, whose romantic novels have already sold over a billion copies worldwide, faced furious allegations of plagiarism, previously un...

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Software Fingers Fake Online Reviews

2011-07-27T14:07:36Z

Cornell University researchers have developed software that they say can detect fake reviews (PDF). The researchers tested the system with reviews of ...

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Kansas City Star Dismisses Columnist Steve Penn For Plagiarism

2011-07-13T16:09:29Z

The Kansas City Star dismissed longtime employee and columnist Steve Penn on Tuesday for using material that wasn't his and representing it as his own...

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Johann Hari Denies Plagiarism Charges

2011-07-01T15:01:20Z

UPDATE: The Orwell Prize has issued a statement about the plagiarism allegations surrounding Johann Hari: "Given the seriousness of the allegations th...

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Louis Peitzman: Stop, Thief!

2011-06-15T17:58:08Z

Is it really stealing if you're only grabbing two sentences? I'd guess that's how many Twitter thieves justify their plagiarism.

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Jason Salzman: McInnis Cleared of Dishonest Lawyer Conduct, But Questionable Politician Conduct Still a Problem

2011-05-23T14:19:41Z

The investigation cleans up Scott McInnis a bit, but it doesn't clear his name, unless you believe throwing people under buses is a good idea.

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HE'S BACK

2011-05-17T14:41:17Z

The controversial former ethnic studies professor from CU-Boulder Ward Churchill is scheduled to give a speech in Grand Junction over the Memorial Day...

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Gotcha: The Top 8 Sites People Plagiarize

2011-05-03T17:06:42Z

Turnitin.com, a site dedicated to catching plagiarists, conducted a study and found that when students copy from the web, they generally lift blocks o...

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David Callahan: Post Plagiarism Case: What Was Sari Horwitz Thinking?

2011-03-17T18:41:12Z

I've dug into plenty of plagiarism incidents involving reporters over the years, but I'll confess that I'm totally stumped by the case of Sari Horwitz. Here's the puzzling part.

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Washington Post Apologizes For 'Substantial' Plagiarism In Two Stories

2011-03-16T17:05:07Z

UPDATE, 3/17: The Washington Post suspended Sari Horwitz—who has been with the paper for 27 years and won two Pulitzer Prizes—for three months as...

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Jerry Seinfeld Free To Mock Wife's Rival Cookbook Author, Judge Rules

2011-02-28T09:19:29Z

NEW YORK — A judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a cookbook author who accused Jerry Seinfeld of hurting her reputation by mocking her on national...

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