Noted Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by his employers CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism and apologised for the ethical lapse.
Mr Zakaria was suspended by CNN and Time magazine after he admitted that he had plagiarised portions of an article he wrote on gun control for Time from the New Yorker magazine.
He issued an apology saying he had made a “terrible mistake” and his lifting a paragraph from the article by Harvard University professor of American history Jill Lepore was an “ethical lapse”.
Zakaria, 48, a Yale and Harvard graduate, had written the column on gun control that appeared in the August 20 issue of Time magazine. Time said it was suspending Zakaria’s column for a month, pending review.
“Time accepts Fareed’s apology, but what he did violates our own standards for our columnists, which is that their work must not only be factual but original; their views must not only be their own but their words as well,” Ali Zelenko, a spokeswoman for the magazine, said. “As a result, we are suspending Fareed’s column for a month, pending further review,” Time said. CNN, on which Mr Zakaria hosts the weekly foreign affairs show Fareed Zakaria GPS, said it would suspend the show for an indefinite period pending review.