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By: Does “self-plagiarism” exist? On Jonah Lehrer and my own blogging / writing – The Rest Project

Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:51:27 +0000

[…] as a blogger for the New Yorker is seen as a plum job?) by copying material from his old blogs. Edward Champion, Romenesko, New York Magazine, and Poynter all have criticized him for several […]

By: Thou Shalt Not Plagiarize Thyself - Twin Cities Daily PlanetTwin Cities Daily Planet

Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:28:34 +0000

[…] The world of media writers who write about media writers went aflame this week after Jim Romenesko outed Jonah Leher for “copy-and-pasting” his own material from one article to another in different publications. Romenesko pointed out that three paragraphs of a blog post Leher wrote for The New Yorker were remarkably similar to an article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal last fall. It turns out that it wasn’t the only time Leher has done this. […]

By: Josh Ostrovsky, Plagiarist: His Lies to Katie Couric and His Serial Instagram Thefts | Reluctant Habits

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 05:49:17 +0000

[…] the entertainment world, it’s important to understand that, much like serial plagiarists Jonah Lehrer and Q.R. Markham, Ostrovsky could not refrain from his pathological need for […]

By: Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com By Charles Seife | through reason and logic

Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:48:40 +0000

[…] of three books, and (former) New Yorker staff writer has been under siege. In mid-June, he was accused of recycling his old work and publishing it as new. Since then, […]

By: How We Decide: Trolling Goodreads | Soapboxing

How We Decide: Trolling Goodreads | Soapboxing — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 03:30:51 +0000

[…] for self-plagiarism as well. (Basically, he was recycling content like a lazyass, although he also lifted from Malcolm Gladwell.) For some reason, publishers keep thinking it’s a good idea to throw […]

By: Who’s the Victim of Self-Plagiarism? | The Misfortune Of Knowing

Who’s the Victim of Self-Plagiarism? | The Misfortune Of Knowing — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:05:37 +0000

[…] majority of Mr. Lehrer’s infactions appear to be self-plagiarism, where he lifted portions of previous published materials and inserted it into “new” […]

By: Ratliff Writing

Ratliff Writing — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:19:51 +0000

[…] How Jonah Lehrer Recycled His Own Material for Imagine […]

By: What Would Be and What Is | Poetry for Grave Diggers

What Would Be and What Is | Poetry for Grave Diggers — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:08:42 +0000

[…] [Jonah Lehrer confession: I made points similar to the ones found in here in a post for the University of Windsor newspaper in 2007. Since no one’s paying me for this, I reserve the right to recycle to a new au Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailRedditMoreStumbleUponPrintDiggLike this:LikeBe the first to like this. Posted in: Personal, The StruggleTagged: Burning Down the House, Confused White People, i'm down i swearPermalinkLeave a comment […]

By: Imagine: How Did This Happen? | All About Work

Imagine: How Did This Happen? | All About Work — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:57:34 +0000

[…] opportunity to read Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine – the book that’s part of the controversy about plagiarism and fabrication in Lehrer’s writing. Imagine has been pulled by its publisher because of that […]

By: Jew Journalist Lied - Stormfront

Jew Journalist Lied - Stormfront — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:33:21 +0000

[…] of three books, and (former) New Yorker staff writer has been under siege. In mid-June, he was accused of recycling his old work and publishing it as new. Since then, a number of accounts assert that […]

By: Hyperlinks: Simple but effective online journalism tools | samcanavan

Hyperlinks: Simple but effective online journalism tools | samcanavan — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:01:13 +0000

[…] examples of Lehrer recycling in stories for The New York Times June 20: Edward Champion published a comprehensive catalog of Lehrer’s recycling June 20: Lehrer apologized for recycling his own material June 21: New Yorker editor David Remnick […]

By: Wired Magazine “Severs Relationship” with Jonah Lehrer | All About Work

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:36:47 +0000

[…] analysis is very thoughtful and well worth reading. And, unlike other critics of Lehrer’s work, Seife was given the opportunity to interview Lehrer about the issues with Lehrer’s writing. […]

By: Almost Every Jonah Lehrer Piece I Examined Showed Journalistic Misdeeds

Almost Every Jonah Lehrer Piece I Examined Showed Journalistic Misdeeds — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:09:05 +0000

[…] of three books, and (former) New Yorker staff writer has been under siege. In mid-June, he was accused of recycling his old work and publishing it as new. Since then, a number of […]

By: On the Value and Fickleness of Harsh Criticism « MAGGIE CLARK

On the Value and Fickleness of Harsh Criticism « MAGGIE CLARK — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:41:32 +0000

[…] you imagine such a kindness as the word “economy” being imparted on Jonah Lehrer, the journalist most recently scandalized for recycling his own work, plagiarizing others, and […]

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:31:38 +0000

Clearly, it’s lazy to plagiarize oneself, but hardly worthy of our outrage. He wrote it once; as far I’m concerned he can write it twice, three times, or 20. Who cares? As for Dylan, that’s of a different magnitude of order, and plainly wrong. Let’s not conflate the two things.

By: Joachim MacEbong: On Fareed Zakaria and the wages of lazy journalism | YNaija

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:41:27 +0000

[…] Bob Dylan for his book ‘Imagine: How Creativity Works’. He has come under fire previously for re-using his old material, and even faced allegations of using Malcolm Gladwell’s work. The made-up Dylan quotes were the final straw, however, and the publication of his book has since […]

By: W co gra teraz internetowy tłum? W “Znajdź plagiat u Lehrera” « Kwadratura Sieci

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:47:58 +0000

[…] tuszował swoje nadużycia, gdy ktoś ciekawski zaczął zadawać mu pytania. Odkryto też, że plagiatował fragmenty tekstów Malcolma Gladwella. I co chwilę pojawiają się nowe […]

By: The Decisive Moment: When Jonah Lehrer decided to lie… repeatedly « Chomps.

The Decisive Moment: When Jonah Lehrer decided to lie… repeatedly « Chomps. — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:09:44 +0000

[…] Bor’s article was right: the science was pretty guff. Not only that, but Lehrer has, in the past, self-plagiarised. The more I look, the less credible his writing […]

By: Avery Moore – Vindication?

Avery Moore – Vindication? — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:50:12 +0000

[…] also, it seems, cribbed liberally from Malcolm Gladwell, who either never noticed or simply didn’t mind, since Gladwell blurbed […]

By: Jonah Lehrer admits faking quotes; resigns from New Yorker « Why Evolution Is True

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:32:38 +0000

[…] that “arbitrarily and often inaccurately” supported his thesis. The writer Edward Champion, who catalogued Lehrer’s recent recyclings on his blog, stated baldly that Lehrer was guilty of “plagiarizing” […]

By: New Yorker Wunderkind Fabricates Himself Out of a Job, as Discovered by Michael C. Moynihan | Libertarios of America

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:21:29 +0000

[…] who had already dipped his toe in warm water last month when it was discovered (among other slip-ups) that he was publishing items on the New Yorker‘s website that he had published elsewhere, […]

By: New Yorker Wunderkind Fabricates Himself Out of a Job, as Discoveredy by Michael C. Moynihan - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:16:33 +0000

[…] who had already dipped his toe in warm water last month when it was discovered (among other slip-ups) that he was publishing items on the New Yorker's website that he had published elsewhere, stepped […]

By: Jonah Lehrer’s plagiarism and Nicholas Dawidoff’s ode to sportswriting | Bleacher Report – The Writers Blog

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:40:42 +0000

[…] taken a beating last month when he was accused of the odd offense of “self-plagiarism,” recycling things he’d written for one publication in […]

By: It’s Hard Out There for a Plagiarist | Con Games

It’s Hard Out There for a Plagiarist | Con Games — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:45:22 +0000

[…] writing about them, when they were found. Edward Champion kept track of such examples on the blog Reluctant Habits,where he wrote on June 22: What is surprising is that the material recycled in the New […]

By: Can cheaters repent? : The Last Word On Nothing

Can cheaters repent? : The Last Word On Nothing — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:01:21 +0000

[…] the New Yorker. Lehrer had been a fast-rising star in the science journalism world, and suddenly his secret was out—his unbelievable output was attributable in part to his habit of recycling his own work without […]

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:40:33 +0000

The accusation of pilfering Gladwell in the Allen quote is pretty unfounded. Seems both were summarizing Allen.

By: Ashley E

Ashley E — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:01:08 +0000

Sorry, that was the NewYorker, not NY Times…

By: Ashley E

Ashley E — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:55:44 +0000

Well, it looks like Lehrer is in even more trouble over the questionable information in his book “Imagine”. He’s now (as of today, I believe) resigend from his NY Times column, and his publisher has pulled copies of his book because his quotations of Dylan were either compilations of multiple quotations or were fabrications. Now this is absolutely not acceptable and clearly crosses the line between “right” and “wrong”. I still believe that his “copying of himself” is sort of a non-issue, but this is a completely different story…

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/jonah-lehrer-resigns-from-new-yorker-after-making-up-dylan-quotes-for-his-book/

By: Like Jonah Lehrer in leather pants | Ebooks on Crack

Like Jonah Lehrer in leather pants | Ebooks on Crack — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:41:15 +0000

[…] of which leads me to the question: what would be the literary equivalent? Of course the recent scandal involving Jonah Lehrer‘s plagiarism of his own earlier published work comes to mind, but he was […]

By: Misreporting is Worse than ‘Self-Plagiarism’ | All About Work

Misreporting is Worse than ‘Self-Plagiarism’ | All About Work — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:05:06 +0000

[…] had appeared elsewhere previously, and “regret[ting] the duplication of material”. This very extensive analysis posted on another site presents parts of other works by Lehrer that use identical or very similar wording, plus a few […]