By: Joe Strupp The New York Times today revealed that a business story in Monday's paper included four paragraphs taken from a British newspaper's Web site. In an editor's note, the Times said that the story about the publishers of Forbes seeking investors wrongly included the paragraphs from the online version of The Independent, a London daily paper.
"In preparing the article, The Times's writer consulted an online report from The Independent on Sunday ... which he appended to the end of his computer file for reference," the note, which ran on A-2, said in part. "Through an editing error, four short paragraphs of The Independent's report, about the history of Steve Forbes's political ambitions, were incorporated in the Times article. The Times regrets the error."
The Times, following its usual style, did not disclose the name of the writer or the editor. But a New York Post story on the incident published today identified the writer as Andrew Ross Sorkin. "An editor added the paragraphs into the story not realizing it was part of my notes," Sorkin told the Post. He called this a "stupid error."
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