CNN fires news editor over plagiarism

CNN fired a news editor that it said plagiarized at least 50 stories, mostly from Reuters, during her six months with the cable network.

Marie-Louise Gumuchian, who reported on Africa, Europe and the Middle East from CNN's London bureau, was terminated after one of her stories was flagged during the editing process last week.

An internal investigation uncovered "about 50 published stories" that contained plagiarized material, according to CNN.

Apparently, Ms. Gumuchian isn’t the only one who can Google stories by topic. A CNN copy editor did and found Ms. Gumuchian’s phrase verbatim in a Reuters story. Further Googles turned up more than 100 instances of plagiarized sentences/graphs.

And CNN still has editors. Unlike too many newspapers who slashed so many watchdogs of their stories.

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