Newspaper Suspends Columnist Jacoby
The Boston Globe suspended columnist Jeff Jacoby for four months without pay after concluding he should have alerted readers that one of his columns was based on similar writings that appeared previously in other publications. Jacoby’s July 3 column, which discussed the fates of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, amounted to “serious journalistic misconduct,” said Editorial Page Editor Renee Loth and Publisher Richard Gilman in Saturday’s Globe. They stopped short of calling Jacoby’s column plagiarism.
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