Plagiarism

Gerald Posner is admitting he plagiarized again, though he says it was accidental. The journalist and author told the Associated Press yesterday that he inadvertently used passages from Frank Owen ’s “Clubland’’ in his own new book, “Miami Babylon.’’ Similarities between the two nonfiction books were reported Tuesday night by Miami New Times. Posner resigned last month from the website the Daily Beast amid allegations that he incorporated passages from Miami Herald articles in pieces that he wrote for the Daily Beast.

An investigating committee has cleared Hungary's president of plagiarizing his 1992 doctoral thesis, despite the inclusion of many pages copied from other sources and a long list of errors. A five-member committee at Budapest's Semmelweis University says academics at the then-independent University of Physical Education should have noticed and called attention to similarities between large parts of Schmitt's thesis analyzing the Olympic Games and works by other authors. The committee says Schmitt's dissertation complied with the formal requirements of the time, despite the lack of...

An investigating committee has cleared Hungary's president of plagiarizing his 1992 doctoral thesis, despite the inclusion of many pages copied from other sources and a long list of errors. A five-member committee at Budapest's Semmelweis University says academics at the then-independent University of Physical Education should have noticed and called attention to similarities between large parts of Schmitt's thesis analyzing the Olympic Games and works by other authors. The committee says Schmitt's dissertation complied with the formal requirements of the time, despite the lack of...

Producers of a new play inspired by the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal at The New York Times have found the actor who will play the disgraced ex-journalist. The Atlantic Theater Company said Wednesday that Kobi Libii will play a Blair-like Times reporter in the world premiere of Gabe McKinley's play "CQ/CX. " Libii, a Yale graduate and alumnus of Second City in Chicago, was in "Perfect Harmony" at the Acorn Theatre and "The Tempest" at the Porpentine Theater. The rest of the cast includes Larry Bryggman, Peter Jay Fernandez, Tim Hopper, Arliss Howard, David Pittu, Steve...

The Telegram & Gazette of Worcester called home its New England Patriots beat writer from the Super Bowl in Jacksonville after he allegedly plagiarized parts of his Sunday column from a Sports Illustrated writer. The newspaper published a correction yesterday, saying "Substantial portions of a column originally written by Peter King and published Jan. 24 on the Sports Illustrated website were printed Jan. 30 in the Sunday Telegram under the byline of Ken Powers. " The newspaper also said that it was conducting a full investigation into the matter.

WASHINGTON - A White House official who served as President Bush's middleman with conservatives and Christian groups resigned yesterday after admitting to plagiarism. Twenty columns he wrote for an Indiana newspaper were determined to have material copied from other sources without attribution. Timothy Goeglein, who has worked for Bush since 2001, acknowledged that he lifted material from a Dartmouth College publication and presented it as his own work in a column about education for The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne.

A small, family-owned Connecticut newspaper has settled a lawsuit against the state's largest newspaper after accusing it of repeatedly plagiarizing local news stories. The settlement between the Journal Inquirer of Manchester and the Hartford Courant was entered Thursday in U.S. District Court in Hartford. Its terms weren't disclosed. The Inquirer had accused the Courant of summarizing or rewriting their stories without permission as part of its aggregation policy and printing some stories without attribution.

By Justin A. Rice, Town Correspondent The morning before tonight's first mayoral debate in Peabody, Ted Bettencourt fired the first shot at his opponent, Sean Fitzgerald. Bettencourt, an attorney who is currently serving his fourth term as a councilor-at-large, sent out a press release this morning calling on Fitzgerald to remove plagiarized material from his campaign website . Fitzgerald and Bettencourt will debate on education topics at 7 p.m.tonight at the Higgins Middle School.

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.

WASHINGTON - A Democratic group has unearthed a bit of inspirational autobiography on Republican Senator Scott Brown's official website that was lifted verbatim from Elizabeth Dole's site, language that originated in a campaign speech. In a message to students, the senator uses the exact words as remarks delivered by the former North Carolina senator at her campaign kickoff in 2002. Brown's staff acknowledged yesterday the words originally were Dole's and said their presence in Brown's message was the result of a technical error.

A small, family-owned Connecticut newspaper has settled a lawsuit against the state's largest newspaper after accusing it of repeatedly plagiarizing local news stories. The settlement between the Journal Inquirer of Manchester and the Hartford Courant was entered Thursday in U.S. District Court in Hartford. Its terms weren't disclosed. The Inquirer had accused the Courant of summarizing or rewriting their stories without permission as part of its aggregation policy and printing some stories without attribution.

Russian ex-spy Anna Chapman has found herself at the center of a plagiarism scandal after prominent bloggers accused her of "copy-pasting" from a book by a Kremlin spin doctor. It was reported Tuesday that her column in the best-selling Komsomolskaya Pravda daily is an almost word-for-word copy of an article in a book by Oleg Matveyechev. Chapman, 29, who was deported from the United States last year along with nine other Russian sleeper agents, has been keeping a high profile in Russia, modeling, editing a magazine, giving lectures and taking a role in the pro-Kremlin youth...

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.

WASHINGTON - A Democratic group has unearthed a bit of inspirational autobiography on Republican Senator Scott Brown's official website that was lifted verbatim from Elizabeth Dole's site, language that originated in a campaign speech. In a message to students, the senator uses the exact words as remarks delivered by the former North Carolina senator at her campaign kickoff in 2002. Brown's staff acknowledged yesterday the words originally were Dole's and said their presence in Brown's message was the result of a technical error.

By Justin A. Rice, Town Correspondent The morning before tonight's first mayoral debate in Peabody, Ted Bettencourt fired the first shot at his opponent, Sean Fitzgerald. Bettencourt, an attorney who is currently serving his fourth term as a councilor-at-large, sent out a press release this morning calling on Fitzgerald to remove plagiarized material from his campaign website . Fitzgerald and Bettencourt will debate on education topics at 7 p.m.tonight at the Higgins Middle School.

Gerald Posner is admitting he plagiarized again, though he says it was accidental. The journalist and author told the Associated Press yesterday that he inadvertently used passages from Frank Owen ’s “Clubland’’ in his own new book, “Miami Babylon.’’ Similarities between the two nonfiction books were reported Tuesday night by Miami New Times. Posner resigned last month from the website the Daily Beast amid allegations that he incorporated passages from Miami Herald articles in pieces that he wrote for the Daily Beast.

ATLANTA -- The associate managing editor of a small Georgia newspaper was fired for plagiarizing articles by a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Miami Herald, including copying a passage about his mother's battle with cancer. Chris Cecil, 28, was fired from The Daily Tribune News of Cartersville on Thursday after the Herald pointed out six to eight columns written since March that contained portions from work by Leonard Pitts Jr. A reader tipped Pitts to the plagiarism.

"Secret Window" is a jokey, junky potboiler about a hack novelist, played by Johnny Depp, accused of plagiarism. His accuser is a nasty gentleman named John Shooter who arrives at his lakeside cabin in the form of John Turturro. Shooter wears one of Jed Clampett's old wide-brimmed hats and has a Southern accent so thick with evil that when he says where he's from ("Mizzizzippee"), you can almost smell the brimstone. Wagging a beat-up manuscript, Shooter is not scary so much as he's scarily funny, but Depp's Mort Rainey is concerned.

WASHINGTON - A White House official who served as President Bush's middleman with conservatives and Christian groups resigned yesterday after admitting to plagiarism. Twenty columns he wrote for an Indiana newspaper were determined to have material copied from other sources without attribution. Timothy Goeglein, who has worked for Bush since 2001, acknowledged that he lifted material from a Dartmouth College publication and presented it as his own work in a column about education for The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne.

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Star Tribune said it was reviewing a year's worth of work by one of its editorial page writers after discovering that two of his pieces contained similarities to the work of a writer at The New Yorker . Steve Berg, who has worked at the Star Tribune for 30 years, will not be writing for the paper during the review, said Susan Albright, the editorial page editor. She cited two editorials that contained phrases from or similarities to commentaries by Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker.