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height: 50px;" alt="avatar"/> <span class="meta-byline">by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://www.poynter.org/author/smyers/" title="Posts by Steve Myers" rel="author">Steve Myers</a></span> <span class="meta-published"> <strong>Published</strong> <span class="meta-date">June 19, 2012</span> <span class="meta-time">1:33 pm</span> </span> <span class="meta-modified"> <strong>Updated</strong> <span class="meta-modified-date">June 20, 2012</span> <span class="meta-modified-time">8:28 am</span> </span> </p> <p><strong><em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://jimromenesko.com/2012/06/19/jonah-lehrers-newyorker-com-smart-people-post-look-familiar/">JimRomenesko.com</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/jonah-lehrer-new-yorker-writer-plagiarizes-himself.html">New York magazine</a></em></strong><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/daniel-kahneman-bias-studies.html#ixzz1yBK3LldL">The New Yorker has added an editor’s note</a> to a recent Jonah Lehrer blog post in which he more or less copied the first several paragraphs from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203633104576625071820638808.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">something he wrote for The Wall Street Journal</a> in October. NewYorker.com Editor Nicholas Thompson tells Jim Romenesko, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://jimromenesko.com/2012/06/19/jonah-lehrers-newyorker-com-smart-people-post-look-familiar/">who revealed the problem</a>, that he wasn’t aware of the duplication. New York magazine’s Joe Coscarelli has found two more examples in which Lehrer’s recent blog posts contain sentences quite similar to things he’s has written in the past.</p> <p>In March, a Baltimore Sun columnist <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/166906/baltimore-sun-columnist-confesses-to-recycling-passages-from-old-columns/">confessed that he had recycled material from past columns</a>. || <strong>Related:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://classic.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57676/">When is self-plagiarism OK</a>? | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/158898/experts-look-for-the-line-between-unconscious-and-deliberate-plagiarism/">Experts look for the line between unconscious and deliberate plagiarism</a></p> </p> <p class="article-tags"> Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://www.poynter.org/tag/ethics/" rel="tag">Ethics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://www.poynter.org/tag/jonah-lehrer/" rel="tag">Jonah Lehrer</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://www.poynter.org/tag/plagiarism/" rel="tag">Plagiarism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://www.poynter.org/tag/top-stories/" rel="tag">Top Stories</a> </p> <div class="entry-footer"> </div> </div> <div id="comments"> <p class="disclaimer">We have made it easy to comment on posts, however we require civility and encourage full names to that end (first initial, last name is OK). <a href="/web/20150928170940/http://www.poynter.org/archived/about-poynter/109142/feedback-guidelines-2/">Please read our guidelines here before commenting</a>.</p> <div id="disqus_thread"> <div id="dsq-content"> <ul id="dsq-comments"> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="dsq-comment-44272"> <div id="dsq-comment-header-44272" class="dsq-comment-header"> <cite id="dsq-cite-44272"> <span id="dsq-author-user-44272">Anonymous</span> </cite> </div> <div id="dsq-comment-body-44272" class="dsq-comment-body"> <div id="dsq-comment-message-44272" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>exactly what is the “problem”? lehrer used a short piece of something he had written before. so what? you can’t plagiarize yourself. if you can, then i know a publisher who, in his weekly column, has plagiarized himself, oh, 30+ times in the last 30 years. this criticism is ludicrous.</p> </div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="dsq-comment-44264"> <div id="dsq-comment-header-44264" class="dsq-comment-header"> <cite id="dsq-cite-44264"> <span id="dsq-author-user-44264">Anonymous</span> </cite> </div> <div id="dsq-comment-body-44264" class="dsq-comment-body"> <div id="dsq-comment-message-44264" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Yikes. Schaudenfraude aside, I feel for the guy. As a journalist, you can go from struggling to be heard to having so many demands for your copy that you run out of things to say. And how many of us want to admit when that happens? Hamster-wheel production schedules can make for bad judgments. </p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ var disqus_url = 'https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170940/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/177796/portions-of-jonah-lehrers-new-yorker-blog-posts-taken-from-his-previous-writings/'; var disqus_identifier = '177796 http://www.poynter.org/?p=177796'; var disqus_container_id = 'disqus_thread'; var disqus_domain = 'disqus.com'; var disqus_shortname = 'poynter'; var disqus_title = "Portions of Jonah Lehrer’s New Yorker blog posts taken from his previous writings"; var disqus_config = function () { var config = this; // Access to the config object config.language = ''; /* Add the ability to add javascript callbacks */ /* All currently supported events: * preData — fires just before we request for initial data * preInit - fires after we get initial data but before we load any dependencies * onInit - fires when all dependencies are resolved but before dtpl template is rendered * afterRender - fires when template is rendered but before we show it * onReady - everything is done */ config.callbacks.preData.push(function() { // clear out the container (its filled for SEO/legacy purposes) document.getElementById(disqus_container_id).innerHTML = ''; 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