USA Today Reporter in Ethics Scandal Quits
A reporter for USA Today resigned after an internal investigation found that he had used without attribution quotations that had appeared last year in another newspaper, USA Today said.
Tom Squitieri, who worked for USA Today for 16 years, resigned during a meeting with editors who had examined his March 28 article on armored Humvees and compared it with an account from May 7, 2004, in the Indianapolis Star, USA Today editor Kenneth Paulson said.
“Squitieri’s actions violated USA Today’s standards on sources and attribution,” Paulson said in a statement posted on the newspaper’s website. “USA Today apologizes to its readers. Squitieri has apologized and resigned.”
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