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SciWriteLabs 8.3: Adjudicating the Lehrer plagiarism accusations. Plus: Are we ignoring the truly frightening trends in journalism?*

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: July 3, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism, Media, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Arianna Huffington, Carl Zimmer, Chicago Tribune, David Quammen, Deborah Blum, Jack Shafer, Jane Jacobs, Jim Romenesko, Jonah Lehrer, Journatic, Lou Dobbs, Malcolm Gladwell, Oprah Winfrey, plagiarism, Salon.com, The New York Times, The New Yorker, This American Life, William Goldman | 10 Comments

SciWriteLabs 8.2: Is it kosher to re-use wording from Facebook updates in your journalism? And: do we need a Son of Sam law for media miscreants?

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: June 29, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism, SciWriteLabs | Tagged blogging, Carl Zimmer, David Quammen, Deborah Blum, Facebook, Jack Shafer, Jayson Blair, Jim Romenesko, Jonah Lehrer, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Finkel, Mike Barnicle, Paresh Jha, plagiarism, Salon.com, Son of Sam laws, The New Yorker | 4 Comments

SciWriteLabs 8.1: The Lehrer affair, consequence-free plagiarism, and rules for blogging

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: June 28, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Carl Zimmer, David Quammen, Deborah Blum, Jack Shafer, Jayson Blair, Jonah Lehrer, Malcolm Gladwell, plagiarism, Rolling Stone, Salon.com, Stephen Glass, The New York Times, The New Yorker | 15 Comments

Jonah Lehrer and the Blair-O-Meter: My effort to quantify media misdeeds

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: June 28, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Carl Zimmer, David Quammen, Deborah Blum, Jack Shafer, Jim Romenesko, Jonah Lehrer, Salon.com | Leave a comment

Meandering Mississippi: An early journalism iBook is all wet

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: May 14, 2012

Category: Book review, e-reading | Tagged Army Corps of Engineers, Bird's Point-New Madrid floodway, Carl Zimmer, David Dobbs, Download the Universe, iBooks, iBooks Author, Mississippi River, Robert Krulwich, St. Louis Beacon | 2 Comments

Crap futurism, cruftiness, and walled gardens: A Download the Universe roundtable on e-reading

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: April 24, 2012

Category: e-reading | Tagged Amazon, Annalee Newitz, Apple, Carl Zimmer, David Carr, DOJ, Download the Universe, io9, Maia Szalavitz, Sony | 1 Comment

The frozen future of nonfiction: My review of David Eagleman’s Why The Net Matters

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: March 23, 2012

Category: Articles, Book review | Tagged Carl Zimmer, David Eagleman, Download the Universe, ScienceOnline, Sum, Why the Net Matters | Leave a comment