LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Here's a simple ethical question: A journalist publishes a story. The story contains paragraphs that mirror - almost verbatim - an article printed in another publication. Is that journalist a plagiarist? The vast majority of people would respond quickly and confidently, insisting the reporter has committed the gravest of journalistic misdeeds - plagiarism. This answer is obvious, but in the case of The New Yorker's... full story ![]()
Can you outsource integrity? Jonah Lehrer thinks so. In fact, that's his plan for reviving his career as a big-idea science journalist.
forbes.com (3 months and 7 days ago)
Jonah Lehrer's appearance at a Knight Foundation event Tuesday was supposed to be the first step in a rehabilitation culminating in his return to the welcoming arms of the journalism profession. It didn't quite work out that way.
forbes.com (3 months and 6 days ago)
Jonah Lehrer, the disgraced science journalist who stepped down from a staff position at the New Yorker last year after it was revealed that he plagiarized and fabricated some of his material, made his first extensive public statements on Tuesday at a Knight Foundation seminar in Miami.
ibtimes.com (3 months and 7 days ago)
(Reuters) - A second book by U.S. writer Jonah Lehrer, who previously admitted to making up quotes from singer Bob Dylan, is being pulled from sale, its publisher said on Friday.
reuters.com (2 months and 21 days ago)
Jonah Lehrer tarnished the profession of journalism, but good reporters work hard every day and do the industry proud, writes Jon Friedman.
marketwatch.com (2 months and 29 days ago)
Following a public outcry that reverberated throughout the journalism community, the Knight Foundation on Wednesday said it should never have paid Jonah Lehrer for a speaking engagement in Miami this week.
ibtimes.com (3 months and 5 days ago)
The Knight Foundation says it regrets paying disgraced journalist Jonah Lehrer $20,000 to speak at a conference this week about his plagiarism scandal.
politico.com (3 months and 6 days ago)
NEW YORK (AP) -- A second Jonah Lehrer book is being pulled....
ap.org (2 months and 21 days ago)
Disgraced journalist and author Jonah Lehrer is in hot water again after he recently apologized at a lecture in Florida for fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in his 2012 book "Imagine" -- fabrications that effectively destroyed his reputation and forced his resignation from the New Yorker. Lehrer’s publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), announced that it will pull the...
ibtimes.com (2 months and 20 days ago)
For a while, Jonah Lehrer, the science writer who admitted to fabricating quotes, plagiarism, and other journalism sins, seemed to be pulling it off in his mea culpa speech to a Knight Foundation conference. You could watch this play out over Twitter. (Literally: tweets were projected on a giant screen behind Lehrer.) But mild snark for the lead-in and as a counterpoint to...
forbes.com (3 months and 7 days ago)
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