From: Gawker

The Daily Beast writer who confessed Friday to "unintentionally"
lifting several sentences from a Miami Herald article also copied
passages on four other occasions, as far back as July 2009. And now
he's taking a "time out" from the Beast. On Friday, it looked like
writer Gerald Posner had his minor plagiarism scandal under
control. Slate's Jack Shafer busted him for one case of copying,
but Posner claimed it was accidental and his editors said he would
keep working. Now Shafer has three more examples of Posner stealing
from the Herald, plus one involving Texas Lawyer, and Posner writes
he's been suspended. He blogged: "I now realize that a met...
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