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‘Chief Investigative Reporter’ for Tina Brown’s Daily Beast Resigns After Plagiarism Scandal

Posted on | February 11, 2010 | 2 Comments

At least he wasn’t just making up stuff:

Amid additional allegations of plagiarism, journalist and South Beach resident Gerald Posner announced via his blog and Twitter that he has resigned from The Daily Beast, the year-old Internet news publication co-founded by Tina Brown.
Posner wrote that his boss, Daily Beast Executive Editor Edward Felsenthal, called him on Wednesday to say an internal investigation had “uncovered more instances” of “apparent plagiarism.” . . .
Jack Shafer, a writer for Slate.com, reported last week that Posner had lifted five sentences from a Miami Herald article about the battle over the late Ben Novack Jr.’s estate.
On Monday, Shafer reported more instances of plagiarism by Posner from a Miami Herald blog, a Miami Herald editorial, Texas Lawyer magazine and a healthcare journalism blog.

Jack Shafer’s post is here. Posner’s lame excuse is here. (Hat-tip: AOSHQ Headlines.) Of all the things I’ve been accused of, plagiarism isn’t one of them. My screw-ups have been utterly original.

What kind of scoops did Posner plagiarize? Michael Jackson’s physician. Yeah, that’s why Tina Brown hires a “chief investigative reporter,” to get to the bottom of real scandals.

Next at the Daily Beast: Who stole Anne Hathaway’s bra?

Category: Journalism

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2 Responses to “‘Chief Investigative Reporter’ for Tina Brown’s Daily Beast Resigns After Plagiarism Scandal”

  1. Proof
    February 12th, 2010 @ 2:41 am

    “My screw-ups have been utterly original.”
    Quite so! Why would anyone think that you could get away with plagiarism in the Internet age?

    I thought about plagiarizing once. It was a far, far better thing than I had ever done…

  2. Proof
    February 11th, 2010 @ 9:41 pm

    “My screw-ups have been utterly original.”
    Quite so! Why would anyone think that you could get away with plagiarism in the Internet age?

    I thought about plagiarizing once. It was a far, far better thing than I had ever done…