An editor at a University of Wisconsin-Madison student newspaper was fired after repeatedly plagiarizing stories from other media outlets, the paper’s editor-in-chief said Tuesday.
The Badger-Herald fired its state editor Nov. 30 and planned to run an apology in today’s editions for his actions, Editor-in-Chief Taylor Hughes said. He declined to name the state editor or divulge his year in school.
“We basically don’t want to ruin this guy’s life. There’s no reason to make it so a 20-year-old can’t learn from his mistakes in the future,” Hughes said.