A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay was found to be plagiarized from the Wall Street Journal.
April 12, 2007 (Press Release) --
The essay on libraries was removed from the CBS Web site and an editor's note was posted saying the item should have credited to Jeffrey Zaslow of the Journal, the network said Tuesday.
The essays are carried regularly on ''Couric & Co.,'' the anchor's blog on the CBS News Web site. Couric and producers meet once a week to decide on topics and the producers write them for Couric to read on camera.
An editor for the Journal called CBS to point out the similarities of the April 4 item to an article by Zaslow, a former Sun-Times advice columnist, headlined ''Of the Places You'll Go, Is the Library Still One of Them?''
''We were horrified,'' CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said. ''It was almost verbatim.''
Still, Glocksen said Wednesday's event was part of a dream come true.
"It's weird, because I'm a resident of Naperville now, but it's not my hometown. So it's cool," she said. "I didn't know who anyone was, and now I have media in front of me, and people in auditoriums chanting my name. I love it; now I'm glad to be home."
Source: http://www.msn.com
The essays are carried regularly on ''Couric & Co.,'' the anchor's blog on the CBS News Web site. Couric and producers meet once a week to decide on topics and the producers write them for Couric to read on camera.
An editor for the Journal called CBS to point out the similarities of the April 4 item to an article by Zaslow, a former Sun-Times advice columnist, headlined ''Of the Places You'll Go, Is the Library Still One of Them?''
''We were horrified,'' CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said. ''It was almost verbatim.''
Still, Glocksen said Wednesday's event was part of a dream come true.
"It's weird, because I'm a resident of Naperville now, but it's not my hometown. So it's cool," she said. "I didn't know who anyone was, and now I have media in front of me, and people in auditoriums chanting my name. I love it; now I'm glad to be home."
Source: http://www.msn.com
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