Daily Beast reporter resigns after plagiarism revealed
A veteran reporter for 🏅the Daily Beast has re🌱signed after it was revealed that she plagiarized large portions of a recent article from the Weekly Standard.
A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine first noticed the striking similaritie𒁃s between articles written by the Daily Beast’s Lizzie Crocker and the Weekly Standard’s Alice B. Lloyd, Lloyd’s exact wording from a Jan. 11 story into her Jan. 12 story on writer Katie Roiphe.
“Actually the whole paragraph is lifted,” the writer, Thomas Chatter🐽on Williams, tweeted Saturday. “This is actually incredible. Had to step away and returned to the article to see another graph lifted entirely word for word. Am I missing something? Does The Daily Beast have a content licensing deal with The Weekly 🅘Standard?”
W♐illiams continued his takedown of Crocker’s plagiarism, saying: ‘This is not how the game is su𝐆pposed to go.”
the entirety of the rest of the piece is lifted after that. it takes time to write things. an🔯d to think up your own turns of phrase/construct an argument.
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (🎃@thomaschattwill)
John Avlon, the Daily Beast’s edꦿitor-in-chief, confirmed to The Post in a statement Tuesday that Crocker’s article was deleted and replaced with an editor’s note after the outlet learned of the allegations and confirmed them.
“Lizzie Crocker offered to resign and her resignation was accepted,” Avlon said in a statement. “When a sec♏ond instance of plagiarism emerged, that story was delete🅺d as well. A larger investigation of her work at The Beast is underway. We take plagiarism seriously, and will not allow the hard-earned trust we’ve built with our millions of loyal readers to be compromised.”
Crocker’s story on Roiphe — a writer for Harper’s Magazine who reportedly intends to name the author of the so-called “Sh—y Men in Media” list of male journalists accused of sexual misconduct — has now been replaced by an editor’s note.
“The story published about author Katie Roiphe violated The Daily Beast’s Code of Ethics and Standards and has b♌een removed,”ꩵ the .
Attempts to reach Crocker — whose Twitter bio on Tuesday still identified her as a reporter for the Daily Beast — were not successful. She had worked for the outlet as a reporter since July 2011, and as an editorial assistant for Newsweek and the Daily Beast prior to that, according to her LinkedIn account. Some of Crocker’s more recent stories for the Beast include a profile on collagen-infused beauty products, a letter to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and an article about comedians Sarah Silverman and Louis C.K., which has also been removed.
“The story published about Sarah Silverman, Louis C.K. and women grappling with the fallout of #MeToo violated The Daily Beast’s Code of Ethics and Standards and has been removed,” .