Wednesday, July 8, 2009

How to blacklist yourself in journalism

If journalists had commandments, this would certainly be at the top of the list:

Thou shalt not copy the work of others and pass it off as your own

Hailey Mac Arthur didn't get the memo. The second-year University of Florida J-school student was working as an intern for the Colorado Springs Gazette when her editors discovered she was stealing passages from New York Times articles.

Oh, Miss Mac Arthur, there's no faster way to end your career than by doing that.

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