Abramson appearing on Fox News, disputed the allegations, but later tweeted she would ‘review the passages in question’
Former New York Times e xecutive editor Jill Abramson is facing allegations that she lifted material from other sources for her new book.
A Twitter thread posted Wednesday by Vice correspondent Michael Moynihan lists several examples of passages in Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts that closely resemble material in The New Yorker, Time Out and other publications.
Released this week, Merchants of Truth is a critique of the news business focused on two long-running newspapers, The Times and The Washington Post, along with Vice and fellow digital company BuzzFeed.
Appearing Wednesday on Fox News, Abramson disputed the allegations, saying: “All I can tell you is I certainly didn’t plagiarise in my book and there’s 70 pages of footnotes showing where I got the information.
