How harshly should a newspaper deal with a reporter who makes a string of serious but possibly honest mistakes? Editors at The New York Times (NYT) will answer that question today when they determine the fate of Zachery Kouwe, a business reporter who copied passages from competing news outlets in numerous articles.
Kouwe, who covers mergers and acquisitions, has been suspended pending the verdict from his bosses, expected to be delivered at a meeting on Tuesday afternoon. The first public disclosure of his transgressions came Sunday in the form of an editor's note stating that Kouwe had "improperly appropriated wording and passages" and "reused language from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and other sources without attribution or acknowledgment." The editor's note did not use the word "plagiarism," suggesting that Kouwe's superiors were taking a nuanced view of his transgressions.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
'NYT' Suspends Reporter
The Times has suspended the reporter at center of conflict with WSJ over alleged "plagiarism" with his fate to be decided this afternoon, apparently., Jeff Bercovici reports. Excerpt:
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The pressure on a NYT M&A reporter to match the Journal, which is better sourced in this field, would be intense... I wouldn't be surprised if the assigning editor passed on items and told him to match it, knew pretty much was going on and didn't ask a lot of questions.
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