By Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA
Posted on July 10, 2009 at 1:37pm

Colorado Springs Gazette Fires Intern Who Lifted Material From The New York Times

-- The Colorado Springs Gazette has fired Hailey Mac Arthur, a college student doing a summer internship at the newspaper, for lifting passages from The New York Times. Gazette editor Jeff Thomas wrote on July 7, 2009:

"On Tuesday I learned that The Gazette has published four news stories during the past month that contain passages that are substantially similar, and in some cases identical, to passages in news stories originally published by The New York Times.

For this reason, reporter Hailey Mac Arthur, a college student doing a summer internship in our newsroom, has been dismissed from The Gazette. The Gazette forbids plagiarism, which is the act of employing the creative work of someone else and passing it off as your own. None of the four Gazette articles attributed borrowed material to the Times, as is required when quoting the work of some other publication."

The full story:
http://www.gazette.com/articles/gazette-58112-stories-four.html

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