The one story that seemed to galvanize media circles more than any other this week was that of Jonah Lehrer and his apparent penchant for recycling the same material, down to the sentence, from publication to publication. Romenesko broke the news Tuesday morning when it revealed Lehrer repurposed material for his New Yorker “Frontal Cortex” blog from earlier stories he published in the WSJ; by the end of the day, numerous other examples of recycling were unearthed by many other outlets and journalists, so much so that the New Yorker appended an editor’s note to all five of Lehrer’s blog […]
