UW-Madison student newspaper fires editor for plagiarism
MADISON (AP) – An editor at a University of Wisconsin-Madison student newspaper was fired after repeatedly plagiarizing stories from other media outlets, the paper's editor-in-chief said Tuesday.
The Badger-Herald fired state editor Dan Powell on Nov. 30 and ran an apology in its Wednesday editions for his actions.
Editor-in-Chief Taylor Hughes said Powell took excerpts of stories from The Associated Press, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin State Journal, a Madison daily, and used them in his own stories without attribution.
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