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in its 13 January edition. In a statement, Bridgewater acknowledged that six Ryan articles contained unattributed content from other sources, including one case found during the paper's investigation that had not been publicly identified before. The statement also pointed out that Ryan's stories "did
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reporter whose plagiarism was recently discovered by Knowledge (XXG) editors, has been dismissed after additional instances of plagiarism were reported. This brought his tenure to an end last week after more than twenty years at the newspaper.
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since 1984, as well as writing for other publications during that time, was found to have copied material without attribution in multiple articles dating back as far as 2001, drawing from a variety of online sources. The plagiarism was
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editor Frank Bridgewater initially indicated that any disciplinary action against Ryan was a confidential matter, but Zimmerman reported that according to her sources, he had been given a one-month suspension. She added that the
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s response: "This is the correct course of action, and it's good that the paper lists the plagiarized articles and placed corrections/Editor's Notes in them." Other industry coverage appeared in
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had earlier been running an advertising campaign touting the paper as the source of "Truth" from among the state's news outlets, with Ryan featured prominently in one such ad.
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on Tuesday, 10 January, pointing to two more articles by Ryan with passages that matched verbatim to content on other websites.
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blog reports on corrections and retractions in the news media,
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two weeks ago and later picked up by a local news website, the
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not include inaccurate information or any fabrications."
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Ryan, an entertainment reporter who has worked for the
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