Politico Punts Plagiarist

Image by @jbtaylor via FlickrArlington, Va.-based Political Website Politico has jettisoned reporter Kendra Marr after editors uncovered content in several of her articles that she used without attribution from The New York Times and other publications, according to The Huffington Post.

Politico Editor-in-Chief John F. Harris said Marr resigned. Reportedly, there were a half dozen or so articles that Politico editors said in an online note on their Website "borrowed from the work of others, without attribution, in ways which we cannot defend and will not tolerate."