Check The Romensko media gossip column at http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45 to read about yet another case of suspected plagiarism that is under investigation.
From the column you can click onto both of the stories that led to this correction from the Miami Herald, which is also at the site.
A story about the Broward Sheriff's Office's semiannual awards ceremony, which appeared on Page 2B of the Broward edition on Feb. 6, included several paragraphs that should have been attributed to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Details and quotations from the Sun-Sentinel story, including the comments of civilian honoree John Clark, were used in The Herald's report on the event without appropriate attribution. This is a violation of The Miami Herald's editorial policies and is under internal review.
How do you think this could this have happened? Did a reporter get assigned to "follow" a story that a competitor had scooped him on? Did he get asked to rewrite a story and went too far?
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