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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Award Winning Journalist Accused Of Plagarism

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In case you're wondering what the #interviewswithhari hashtag is about (at one point third highest trending topic in the world), we're here to help.

Johann Hari, columnist for The Independent and The Huffington Post, has become embroiled in a "plagiarism" row in the past couple of days.

A growing number of bloggers had become suspicious of Hari's journalistic chops, notably when a profile he wrote in 2004 of Italian Communist Toni Negri was found to quote judiciously (and without attribution) from a book published in 2003.


Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-28/europe/29970115_1_quotes-journalists-interview#ixzz1fqfKtFeG