Hartford Courant reporter departs over plagiarism
Hillary Federico
In a Thursday A3 editor’s note, the Hartford Courant says two stories by Hillary Federico “contained words or phrases that bear strong similarities to work that appeared in other publications.” The reporter has resigned.
The similarities were found during an internal, ongoing review that began after a similar issue was identified in a recent, unpublished story as it was being prepared for publication.
One of the stories with lifted material was about a Boy Scout troop traveling to Mt. Kilimanjaro, which ran on August 24, and the other was a March 16 profile of two quilters.
* Setting the record straight (courant.com)
