For a moment, it seemed as if Shaun King would be yet another beloved reporter condemned by plagiarism.
On April 19th, King published an article on the New York Daily News on Elliot Earl Williams, a mentally ill man who died in an Oklahoma jail. However, The Daily Beast quickly noticed that the article bore an uncanny resemblance to an article published on their site covering the same case.
The University of Hyderabad and its vice-chancellor, Appa Rao Podile, have been in the news a great deal lately. Unfortunately, not much of it has been positive.
In recent months, protests on the campus have erupted following the suicide of a campus scholar that is widely blamed on the school’s administration and caste discrimination.
In January, as the protests reached a climax, Podile took a “long leave” from the campus in an effort to help to restore calm. However, when he returned in March, the protests flared up anew and led to clashes between protesters and police.
Eilis O'Hanlon is a journalist and author based in Northern Ireland. She, along with her partner, Ian McConnell, wrote under the pseudonym Ingrid Black, and published four crime drama novels: The Dead, which achieved widespread success, as well as the three sequels to the book The Dark Eye, The Judas Heart and Circle of the Dead.
The stories focused on a former FBI agent named Saxon who was living in Dublin and working as a true-crime author, solving very real crimes along the way. But while the story of a crime novelist having to investigate real-life crime makes for great fiction, it became a true story for O’Hanlon after she discovered her novel was being plagiarized on Amazon by a mysterious author named “Joanne Clancy”.
Four years after Jonah Lehrer, WIRED has found itself once again at the center of a plagiarism story, but this time one involving a new journalist who is accused of uncited text in each of the four pieces he published for the site.
In Russia, the head of the Moscow State Linguistic University is facing allegations of plagiarism in his PhD thesis.
The allegations target acting rector of the school, Igor Manokhin, sometimes known as “In-Yaz”, and are brought by Sergei Parkhomenko, the co-founder of Dissernet, a voluntary collective of researchers working to detect plagiarism in Russian theses.
There is little doubt that Yahoo has been struggling lately. Recently having revealed that the company is for sale, the move comes just days after a round of layoffs that saw it exit much of its content creation markets, including several digital magazines.
As a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) competitor, Kenny Florian faced a wide variety of opponents. A runner-up in The Ultimate Fighter season 1 and a title contender in two different weight classes, Florian had a lengthy and successful career as a fighter.
The long, winding story that is the career of Arizona State University (ASU) professor Matthew Whitaker may finally be coming to a close… in May 2017.
In November poet and translator Allen Prowle won the Stephen Spender prize for poetry in translation. To win the prize, he translated the Dutch poet Rutger Kopland’s Johnson Brothers Ltd., a poem about the loss of a father, into English.
In Peru, a presidential candidate is facing allegations of plagiarism that may cost him more than his doctorate - they could result in him being barred from the upcoming elections.