Jill Lepore
Summary
Jill Lepore is a professor of American history at Harvard University and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, and her essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Scholar, and in scholarly journals including the Journal of American History, The American Historical Review, and American Quarterly.Lepore's book New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Knopf, 2005) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.Lepore earned a B.A. in English at Tufts University in 1987, an M.A.
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How the phantom of “socialized medicine” came to be
Jill Lepore deserves a Laurel for her engrossing tale of how political communications came to be so toxic. In "The Lie Factory," Lepore describes the work of the firm Campaigns, Inc. , founded in 1933 by Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter, and outlines the antecedents for the slash-and-burn, repeat-the-lies, cutthroat campaigning so evident in current political.
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Zakaria: ‘I was not trying to pass the work off as my own’
Fareed Zakaria apologized to viewers for plagiarism as he returned to his CNN show “GPS” on Sunday:.
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A Scandal Threatens Zakaria’s Image as a Media Star
Fareed Zakaria is among writers who have parlayed their journalism into more lucrative work like writing books and public speaking, but a plagiarism scandal could threaten that image.
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Fareed Zakaria Is Forgiven By Time And CNN
Less than a week after Fareed Zakaria got caught up in a plagiarism scandal, CNN and Time magazine have announced that Zakaria's suspension has been lifted from both outlets.
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Newsroom responses to Zakaria plagiarism reveal lack of consistency, transparency
The Fareed Zakaria plagiarism scandal has an interesting unintended consequence: it highlights how media outlets respond differently to plagiarism and fabrication cases.
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'Time' Suspends Zakaria Column
Fareed Zakaria apologized for plagiarizing The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore, but Time suspended the editor at large's column for a month anyway.
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Time columnist Fareed Zakaria suspended for lifting from New Yorker story
NewsBusters | National Review | The Atlantic Wire Time magazine has suspended Fareed Zakaria’s column for a month after learning that portions of his Aug. 20 Time magazine column about gun control bore strong similarities to a Jill… Read more.
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Media Decoder Blog: Fareed Zakaria Apologizes for 'Close Similarities' Between Column and New Yorker Article
Mr. Zakaria's recent column on gun control had passages that closely tracked those in a New Yorker piece by the historian Jill Lepore. Time said it "will carefully examine the facts before saying anything else on the matter. ".
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Fareed Zakaria Apologizes for 'Close Similarities' Between Column and New Yorker Article
Mr. Zakaria's recent column on gun control had passages that closely tracked those in a New Yorker piece by the historian Jill Lepore. Time said it "will carefully examine the facts before saying anything else on the matter. ".
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Link by Link: Shedding Hazy Light on a Midnight Ride
Sarah Palin’s recent description of Paul Revere’s legendary ride caused a debate, and rival versions of the event, on Wikipedia.
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