Jill Abramson has denied allegations from two journalists that she plagiarized work of other reporters in her new book Merchants of Truth. Michael Moynihan of Vice News provided comparisons on Twitter to multiple passages from Ryerson Review of Journalism, Time Out magazine, the New Yorker, and more that he says she copied. Freelance journalist Ian Frisch posted a similar thread, stating Abramson “lifted my reporting and put it in her book.” Asked about the accusations on Fox News on Wednesday evening, Abramson said, “All I can tell you is I certainly didn’t plagiarize in my book, and there’s 70 pages of footnotes […]
