June 10, 2011 - Veteran Sun-Times writer Paige Wiser was fired for faking concert review.
Wiser studied at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern. Jim Romensko twtpoll asked if the firing was justified. Results
Monday, June 13, 2011
The Corruption Scandal You Probably Never Heard of
In Cleveland, it was called "one of the biggest local political-machine corruption cases in recent U.S. history." The indictment of Jimmy Dimora, according to one headline, "caps the crumbling of his classic Democratic political machine." (Tony Brown, reporter) The case is still ongoing three years after the FBI raided Dimora's home. And today, a jury found Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Steven Terry guilty of three out of five counts of mail fraud. He is the second judge waiting to be sentenced.
The profiles index assembled by the Cleveland Plain Dealer runs seven pages.
You won't, however, find a single story in the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times about the widespread corruption that has netted 50 so far and involves far more.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has Overviews of the Investigation a Year Later, Two Years later and a timeline for the career of Jimmy Dimora who rose from "from the obscurity of a suburban wastewater treatment plant to become one of the highest profile politicians in Cuyahoga County."
Research by reporter James McCarty.
County in Crisis is the Plain Dealer collection site for stories.
Some convictions include,
County Auditor Frank Russo pleads guilty. Sentenced to 21 years in prison.
"Frank Russo -- once the gregarious front man of the local Democratic Party ...
Joseph Gallucci- admitted to getting a $70,000 job and an additional $10,000 in return for entering the 2006 Cuyahoga County auditor's race as a Republican challenger to incumbent Frank Russo. Gallucci got in the race and then withdrew after the deadline for the Republicans to replace him on the ballot -- clearing the way for Russo to coast back into office, according to Gallucci's plea.
Story: Feds say Frank Russo rigged his 2006 re-election, paying for fake opponent
Demoris' trial has been delayed.
The newspaper is owned by the S.I. Newhouse's newspaper chain.
The profiles index assembled by the Cleveland Plain Dealer runs seven pages.
You won't, however, find a single story in the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times about the widespread corruption that has netted 50 so far and involves far more.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has Overviews of the Investigation a Year Later, Two Years later and a timeline for the career of Jimmy Dimora who rose from "from the obscurity of a suburban wastewater treatment plant to become one of the highest profile politicians in Cuyahoga County."
Research by reporter James McCarty.
County in Crisis is the Plain Dealer collection site for stories.
Some convictions include,
County Auditor Frank Russo pleads guilty. Sentenced to 21 years in prison.
"Frank Russo -- once the gregarious front man of the local Democratic Party ...
Joseph Gallucci- admitted to getting a $70,000 job and an additional $10,000 in return for entering the 2006 Cuyahoga County auditor's race as a Republican challenger to incumbent Frank Russo. Gallucci got in the race and then withdrew after the deadline for the Republicans to replace him on the ballot -- clearing the way for Russo to coast back into office, according to Gallucci's plea.
Story: Feds say Frank Russo rigged his 2006 re-election, paying for fake opponent
Demoris' trial has been delayed.
The newspaper is owned by the S.I. Newhouse's newspaper chain.
Denver Post Sports Writer Lifts Quotes
June 7, 2011 - Denver Post sports columnist Woody Paige apologized for lifting quotes from a SportsBusiness Journal article without attrition. Wikipedia entry: "The Denver Post issued a correction without any admission of misdeed or public consequence to the plagiarist. ESPN failed to acknowledge the lifting of material ever happened."
Paige was not suspended or fired.
SportsbyBrooks: "ESPN’s own Dan Le Batard reported to readers on the MIAMI HERALD website in 2009 that Paige once ripped off an entire column from him." link
Paige was not suspended or fired.
SportsbyBrooks: "ESPN’s own Dan Le Batard reported to readers on the MIAMI HERALD website in 2009 that Paige once ripped off an entire column from him." link
WashPo Reporter Suspended for Making Up Twitter Story
September 13, 2010 - Washington Post sports reporter Mike Wise was suspended by the paper for a month for making up a story and posting it to his Twitter account. He said he made up the story to show that "a made-up, un-sourced story would be picked up and printed by mainstream newspapers." They did.
WashPo Reporter Suspended for Plagarism
March 17, 2011 - The Washington Post says it has suspended a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sari Horwitz for plagiarizing information she used in articles lifted from articles in the Arizona Republic without attributing them to the newspaper.
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