Extensive Plagiarism at the Glendale News-Press
Back in September, editors at the Glendale News-Press noticed that education columnist Dan Kimber’s Sept. 9, 2011 column in the paper had largely been plagiarized from OtherWords columnist Sam Pizzigati. Kimber came clean and his column was discontinued.
Since that time, the News-Press has reviewed all of Kimber’s columns from the past two years. They discovered that nearly 20 percent of all Kimber’s pieces contained elements of plagiarism.
From the News-Press:
The amount taken in each instance varied, from a few sentences to nearly the entire column.
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