CNN, Time magazine suspends Fareed Zakaria for plagiarism - NewsX

  • 5 years ago
Noted Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by his employers CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism and apologised for the ethical lapse. Zakaria, was suspended by CNN and Time magazine after he admitted that he had plagiarized portions of an article he wrote on gun control for Time, from the New Yorker magazine. He issued an apology saying he had made a "terrible mistake" and his lifting a paragraph from the article by Harvard University professor of American history Jill Lepore was an "ethical lapse". Zakaria, 48, a Yale and Harvard graduate, had written the column on gun control that appeared in the August 20 issue of Time magazine.

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