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Dedham Native, Daily Beast Reporter Resigns Over Plagiarism
Lizzie Crocker is out of a job after it was discovered that she plagiarized a story from the Weekly Standard.
DEDHAM, MA — A Dedham native has resigned from her post at the Daily Beast after the discovery of plagiarism.
Thomas Chatterton Williams of New York Times Magazine was the first to point out that a story by now-former Beast reporter Lizzie Crocker on Kate Roiphe, the author of an article that reportedly named the author of the “Shitty Men In Media” list, was heavily lifted from a Weekly Standard story by Alice Lloyd.
Here's what Williams noticed:
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this whole harpers/roiphe controversy is exposing all kinds of problems in contemporary journalism. i'm reading @nymtwit's @thedailybeast piece jan 12 piece and she just straight up copy and pasted (in red) @aliceblloyd's exact wording in a Jan 11 piece in the @weeklystandard. pic.twitter.com/qbYMQ4eKDM
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) January 13, 2018
actually the whole paragraph is lifted
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) January 13, 2018
this is actually incredible. had to step away and returned to the article to see another graph lifted entirely word for word. am i missing something? does the @thedailybeast have a content licensing deal with the @weeklystandard? pic.twitter.com/NaUycpnTRf
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) January 13, 2018
this graph too--this is bold! i hope @aliceblloyd is getting a paycheck twice. pic.twitter.com/o624NArKVK
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) January 13, 2018
In a statement to multiple media outlets, including the Daily Caller, Daily Beast editor-in-chief John Avlon said plagiarism is unacceptable and Crocker's resignation has been accepted.
Avlon added that no other cases of plagiarism have been discovered. The story in question has been removed from the Daily Beast's website.
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Image via YouTube
Editor's Note: Per YouTube's rules, you can only use a screenshot if you have the video in the story. So here's a video of Crocker reading 50 Shades of Grey.
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