Poynter on the Record

Anti-Castro radio commentator Armando Pérez-Roura doesn't subscribe to the left-of-center views of Cuban dissident Oscar Espinosa Chepe. But Espinosa thinks that didn't stop Pérez-Roura from plagiarizing one of his articles.

According to a letter Espinosa wrote from Havana, Pérez-Roura copied most of a column he wrote in September word-for-word from one Espinosa wrote four days earlier...

A journalism ethics specialist at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg said plagiarism is troubling. ''That is a very serious ethical violation, the kind in most newsrooms that would merit a firing or a serious level of discipline,'' said Kelly McBride, ethics group leader at Poynter.
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