A story about a highly addictive drug in Argentina was published in last Saturday’s NYT, but it apparently includes two lines lifted verbatim from a Miami Herald piece that ran in August of 2006.
Jack Shafer, from slate.com, found the similarities in the copy and in his article quotes Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson conceding that the piece’s author, Alexei Barrionuevo, lifted two passages from the Herald and that an Editor’s note about the incident is “in the works.”