The Washington Post suspended one of its most seasoned reporters yesterday after editors determined that “substantial’’ parts of two recent news articles were taken without attribution from another newspaper.
Sari Horwitz, a longtime Post investigative reporter, was suspended for three months for plagiarizing sections of stories that first appeared in The Arizona Republic. The stories concerned the investigation of and legal proceedings for Jared Lee Loughner, the Arizona man accused of shooting Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson in January.
The Republic’s editor, Randy Lovely, alerted Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli to the similarities in the Republic and Post stories in an e-mail Monday.
The Post issued an apology to readers on its website yesterday and is running an editor’s note in today’s paper. Horowitz apologized in a statement yesterday.
