By: E&P Staff A reporter on higher education was dismissed by The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday for allegedly plagiarizing some material from the University of Utah's student newspaper.
"Tribune editors were informed Thursday that passages in a story written by Sykes and published in The Tribune on Thursday contained language that was similar to phrasing in a story that appeared in The Daily Utah Chronicle on the day before," the Tribune reported today.
After an investigation and a meeting with Sykes, The Tribune determined that the allegation was credible, but noted today that Sykes stands by her reporting.
"I talked to everybody in that story, and that's what I told them. There's nothing untrue in that story. There's nothing false in that story, and I talked to everyone," said Sykes in the Tribune's account. She started at the paper in 1993.
The article in question concerned alleged overspending by the University of Utah's student government on a three-day music festival in April.
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