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Zachery Kouwe: NY Times Reporter Investigated for Plagiarism
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by Blaine Metzgar | February 15, 2010 at 06:16 pm
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The New York Times is investigating one of its own business reporters, Zachery Kouwe, for plagiarism after they noticed what looked to be a pattern of plagiarized content over the past year. The news was broke in an Editor's Note in today's paper.
The Editor's Note stated that Kouwe "appears to have improperly appropriated words and passages published by other news organizations."
The Wall Street Journal sent a letter to the New York Times last week after noticing similarities between an article posted on the Journal's web site on February 5 and articles in both the online and print editions of the Times written by Kouwe. The WSJ's letter led to an investigation by the Times where they noticed an "extensive overlap"between Kouwe's work and articles from other media outlets.
Kouwe joined the New York Times in 2008 after working as a reporter for Dow Jones and has covered newsmakers including Bernie Madoff and the trial of two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers.
Zachery Kouwe writes about finance and Wall Street, primarily for DealBook, the New York Times financial blog that is updated continuously throughout the day. He also covers general Wall Street topics such as hedge funds, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and investment banking for the business section of the paper.
According to a statement from the Times, the media outlet "will take appropriate action consistent with our standards to protect the integrity of our journalism."
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at 21:39 on February 15th, 2010
Is this about real plagiarism or is this more about the wall street journal taking a shot at the new york times? Before you ruin this kid's career, did he steal intellectual property, did he steal someone's editorial opinion, did he make up a story that didn't exist?? It would appear that at worst, his facts are similar to someone else's facts. No one owns the facts. The facts cannot be copyrighted. In the days when New york city newspapers were many and prospering, this story would not see the light of day. When you have newspapers that are in their death twitches, chump change becomes serious money. The editors of both newspapers should take a deep breath and get off their high horse. Was the moral landscape of journalistic integrity really injured; or is real journalism just being hammered by the modernity of blogs and posts?
at 23:43 on February 15th, 2010
Worse than Maureen Dowd's plagiarism? She, after all, pilfered an entire paragraph, verbatim. The old Gray lady has a storied history of plagiarism and journalist fraud, a la Jayson Blair. And let us not forget Walter Duranty's flagrant lies, shilling for Stalin as he murdered millions, garnering The NY Times a Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
at 02:44 on February 16th, 2010
Who cares! Pedobear!
at 07:45 on February 18th, 2010
Mr. Kouwe worked for The New York Post before the Times, not Dow Jones, as asserted in this article: www.observer.com/2008/media/new-york-post-biz-reporter-zachery-kouwe-joins-times Correction?