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| The executive director of a prestigious Paris journalism school has been suspended after being accused of plagiarism. | The executive director of a prestigious Paris journalism school has been suspended after being accused of plagiarism. |
| Agnès Chauveau was reported to have cut and pasted parts of articles that had appeared in Le Monde and other French publications for her columns published on the Huffington Post website. | Agnès Chauveau was reported to have cut and pasted parts of articles that had appeared in Le Monde and other French publications for her columns published on the Huffington Post website. |
| Bruno Patino, director of the school at the respected Institute of Political Sciences, known as Sciences Po, wrote to students and staff on Monday saying the allegations could not be taken lightly. “Plagiarism is a serious matter in journalism,” he said in an email. | Bruno Patino, director of the school at the respected Institute of Political Sciences, known as Sciences Po, wrote to students and staff on Monday saying the allegations could not be taken lightly. “Plagiarism is a serious matter in journalism,” he said in an email. |
| Patino, who is also a director of programmes at France Television, the country’s public broadcaster, said he had spoken to Chauveau about the allegations and launched an independent inquiry into the claims. She has been temporarily suspended in the meantime. | Patino, who is also a director of programmes at France Television, the country’s public broadcaster, said he had spoken to Chauveau about the allegations and launched an independent inquiry into the claims. She has been temporarily suspended in the meantime. |
| Chauveau, who has a doctorate in history and specialises in media history, was accused of lifting the material, originally used in her one-hour weekly radio broadcast Soft Power on the France Culture station, from online and printed publications without attribution. | Chauveau, who has a doctorate in history and specialises in media history, was accused of lifting the material, originally used in her one-hour weekly radio broadcast Soft Power on the France Culture station, from online and printed publications without attribution. |
| While this might have gone unnoticed on the radio, a column based on the broadcast appeared on the Huffington Post a few days later. | While this might have gone unnoticed on the radio, a column based on the broadcast appeared on the Huffington Post a few days later. |
| The alleged plagiarism was uncovered by the news website Arrêt Sur Images (ASI) after it complained that Chauveau had used material from one of its articles about the future of the press on digital tablets, without citing its original research. | The alleged plagiarism was uncovered by the news website Arrêt Sur Images (ASI) after it complained that Chauveau had used material from one of its articles about the future of the press on digital tablets, without citing its original research. |
| After contacting the broadcaster, which immediately added a link to the original article in her Huffington Post article, ASI said it ran an online plagiarism check of about 20 of Chauveau’s columns. | After contacting the broadcaster, which immediately added a link to the original article in her Huffington Post article, ASI said it ran an online plagiarism check of about 20 of Chauveau’s columns. |
| It claimed it found that half of them contained at least one sentence directly lifted from the articles of other journalists, but some had two or three sentences that were used unchanged and were not attributed to the original author. | It claimed it found that half of them contained at least one sentence directly lifted from the articles of other journalists, but some had two or three sentences that were used unchanged and were not attributed to the original author. |
| ASI sourced the unattributed material to the investigative website Mediapart, to radio RFI, to the online and paper editions of Le Monde and even to its own website. It described Chauveau as a “serial copier”. | ASI sourced the unattributed material to the investigative website Mediapart, to radio RFI, to the online and paper editions of Le Monde and even to its own website. It described Chauveau as a “serial copier”. |
| Contacted by ASI, Chauveau said she had “forgotten to cite certain papers, but never on purpose”, and insisted: “I’ve rectified this each time there’s been a problem”. | Contacted by ASI, Chauveau said she had “forgotten to cite certain papers, but never on purpose”, and insisted: “I’ve rectified this each time there’s been a problem”. |
| She said she did not “have time to cite all her sources on the radio”. | She said she did not “have time to cite all her sources on the radio”. |
| Sciences Po journalism students are required to sign a charter that states they should “commit no plagiarism or pass anyone else’s ideas as their own, and must explicitly quote their colleagues whose written work they reproduce, even if it is just a few words of text”. Students’ theses are reportedly checked for plagiarism. | Sciences Po journalism students are required to sign a charter that states they should “commit no plagiarism or pass anyone else’s ideas as their own, and must explicitly quote their colleagues whose written work they reproduce, even if it is just a few words of text”. Students’ theses are reportedly checked for plagiarism. |
| Around 400 students have graduated from the journalism school at Sciences Po, the university where many French politicians and leaders, including François Hollande, have studied. | Around 400 students have graduated from the journalism school at Sciences Po, the university where many French politicians and leaders, including François Hollande, have studied. |
| • This article was amended on 20 November 2014 to correct the name of Bruno Patino. An earlier version named him as Bruno Patin. |