Boston sports reporter suspended for plagiarism

A veteran Boston Globe sports writer has been suspended for plagiarising parts of a football column from another paper. Ron Borges must go without pay for two months because his March 4 column about a Seattle Seahawks football player included material from a story published on February 25 by The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington. Globe editor Martin Baron said: "Extensive passages written by the Tacoma reporter were used verbatim in the column by Borges, and that is prohibited. The Globe does not tolerate plagiarism." Borges, has been a Globe journalist for 24 years. (Via Reuters)