Politico reporter Kendra Marr resigns over plagiarism

[Newsjock]

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/149544/politico-reporter-kendra-marr-resigns-over-plagiarism/

Kendra Marr resigned her position Thursday after a New York Times reporter alerted editors to similarities between his transportation policy story and Marr’s story.

Editors examined more of Marr’s work and discovered seven instances in which “specific turns of phrase or passages … bore close resemblance to work published elsewhere. Others involved similarities in the way stories were organized to present their findings. … Material published in our pages borrowed from the work of others, without attribution, in ways which we cannot defend and will not tolerate.”

In a prominent Editor’s Note by John Harris and Jim VandeHei, Politico linked to the seven transportation-related stories written by Marr that were amended Thursday to include proper attribution. The stories also carry Editor’s Notes that explain the changes. Based on the Editor’s Notes appended to stories, material was used from these sources, without proper credit: Scripps Howard (twice), The New York Times (four separate times), Greenwire, NJ.com and The Associated Press (twice), The Hill, The Journal of Commerce.

[gratuitous]

1. Politico has journalistic standards? Who knew?

Certainly higher standards than any of the publications under the News Corporation banner of Rupert Murdoch.

[MADem]

2. For a closeted right wing rag pretending to be bipartisan, apparently so. nt

[Historic NY]

3. Definitely higher than Scott Brown's speech writing.