Fla. St. beat writer resigns amid plagiarism charges.

Most of what she's done at AL.com (http://connect.al.com/user/nataliepierre/posts.html) seems to be aggregation/buzz reporting. Doesn't seem like "Senior SEC writer" may be what you guys think it is.

 

They're also probably livid they didn't get a chance at this job. That seems to be a pattern with some Advance properties.

 

Wouldn't "aggregation" present further opportunities for plagiarism?

 

How long was she in Tallahassee? If she truly didn't last a full year on that beat, she's not qualified for the AL.com job and that's not even taking plagiarism into consideration.

 

Good aggregation shouldn't be.

 

She was in Tallahassee for 3 years. But less than one year as a true FSU beat writer.

 

Again with "young lady"? :

 

Was she on preps before?

This whole thing is just unbelievable. When something like this happens, especially publicly, it's usually a career-ender.

I'm curious about the person Double Down was referencing. Was he someone who was caught publicly or was it kept quiet, which sadly, is often what happens.

I worked with a guy, who is now a national writer for the sport he covers and we were told in the office that he was on leave for family reasons and I was helping cover that beat when he was out and the other writer and I went over to meet with him and after we spent an hour saying, "Wow, I hope everything is OK." and he said, "Wait, what did they tell you about why I'm off?" and we told him and he said, "Well, that's bullshit." and told us how 12 inches of his notes column was word for word from another paper. He said he cut and pasted it and was going to put it into his own words, but didn't. He was grateful that he wasn't fired, but embarrassed that management was telling people that he was out for a month for family reasons.

The notion that someone gets publicly nailed for plagiarism and then winds up with a significantly better job just a couple months later is insane.

 

She did video work and podcasts connected to the team and wrote stories - as a backup or sidebar person, I think. I saw her around press boxes a time or two but she never made any significant impression on me.

 

From the story on AL.com from the thread on Page 5 quoting someone from Tallahassee: “She officially became the beat writer this summer. She had written a little bit before that, but mainly she was a videographer. It’s not like she had a lot of equity built up. She wasn’t ready for the job here."

Sounds like senior reporter material to me.

 

Look whose Tweet showed up on Yahoo!'s main page and sbnation with one of the top stories ... the plagiarist.

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/1/2/7479989/nick-saban-loses-says-least-nick-saban-thing-ever