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Daily News takes blame for plagiarism charges against Shaun King; editor fired

Shaun King, who managed to parlay his visibility in the #BlackLivesMatter movement into a writing gig as the New York Daily News’ senior justice editor (a title and position the newspaper created for him), is once again mired in controversy as last week’s column seems to have borrowed very generously from both FiveThirtyEight and the Daily Beast.

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It’s not the first time King has been called out for his writing. In January, he wrote an opinion piece based on a fake tweet by someone claiming to be Ammon Bundy, and then, without acknowledging the changes, performed a quick patch job which one Daily Beast columnist called “the most idiotic salvage job I have ever seen.”

To be fair, some assume King had intended to set off the copied material from his original text.

https://twitter.com/JimGoodluck/status/722508421715496960

The Daily Beast isn’t satisfied, saying that King lifted two paragraphs — including a typo — from a piece by Daily Beast reporter Kate Briquelet. Briquelet “spent more than two months on this story. The idea that Shaun King magically had the idea to write about this immediately afterwards and publish a story coincidentally 11 hours after — it’s just ridiculous,” said Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman.

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King has blamed his editors for altering his original, and they’ve admitted fault.

Still, the New York Daily News is reportedly reviewing King’s previous columns for any similar screw-ups that would taint his image as a professional writer; that is, the paper that admits it screwed up his column is going to review his other columns for errors. If true, this development means at least one person will have read all of King’s columns.

https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/722520885110927361

Writers and editors on Twitter are already finding other instances of editing errors and missing attributions that look like plagiarism.

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https://twitter.com/ChrisSeay03/status/722521085443317760

Well, someone’s out of a job.

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