Well, this is awkward. Time to update the CNN employee handbook?
"Copy and paste" turns out to be a bad journalism career strategy: http://t.co/sH5LcCOVIv MT @Poynter
— Stan Bunger (@BungerKCBSRadio) May 16, 2014
Pro tip: Don't copy stuff!!! RT @Poynter: CNN fires serial plagiarist http://t.co/KIQ7JBkLwB Found about 50 stories with lifted material.
— EditorDude (@ScottBPruden) May 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/467310022729695232
This morning, CNN posted an editor’s note revealing that the network had fired London bureau news editor Marie-Louise Gumuchian after discovering that she had committed “multiple instances of plagiarism.”
CNN has dismissed a news editor after discovering plagiarism in "about 50 published stories:" http://t.co/pupXrpi5em
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/chriswelch/status/467298705331458048
Via CNN:
An unpublished story flagged last week during our editing process led to an internal investigation that uncovered other examples in about 50 published stories, and our investigation is ongoing.
We’ve terminated Gumuchian’s employment with CNN, and have removed the instances of plagiarism found in her pieces. In some cases, we’ve chosen to delete an entire article.
Kudos to @cnn for its transparency in the termination of editor Marie-Louise Gumuchian for a pattern of plagiarism. http://t.co/0HUaQJUXJ5
— Steve Werby (@stevewerby) May 16, 2014
Yeah, good on CNN for taking action, though some important questions still remain:
https://twitter.com/Will_Antonin/status/467312742366322688
https://twitter.com/Will_Antonin/status/467313074274586624
Inquiring minds want to know.
Meanwhile, Gumuchian may feel pretty rotten right now, but all is not lost for her. There’s a light at the end of this tunnel:
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/467310721844654080
There you go!
Editor’s note: Thanks to @LadyOnTheRight1 for catching a missing word in the last paragraph. It has been corrected.