No sooner had the New Yorker science writer's career crashed than the questions began. If you recycle parts of a story you've written, exactly what is your action called? Some call it self-plagiarism. On Ars Technica, Jonathan M. Gitlin says it depends: "Can you really plagiarize yourself? Is it plagiarism to get paid to give talks that rehash work you've written?" More from Andrew Beaujon and Craig Silverman at Poynter.
June 21, 2012