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Agnes Chauveau was reported to have cut and pasted parts of articles that had appeared in Le Monde and other French publications.

Paris journalism school director Agnes Chauveau accused of plagiarism

The executive director of a prestigious Paris journalism school has been suspended after being accused of plagiarism.

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The executive director of a prestigious Paris journalism school has been suspended after being accused of plagiarism.

Agnes Chauveau was reported to have cut and pasted parts of articles that had appeared in and other French publications for her columns published on the Huffington Post website.

Bruno Patin, director of the school at the respected Institute of Political Sciences, known as Sciences Po, wrote to students and staff on Monday saying the allegations could not be taken lightly. "Plagiarism is a serious matter in journalism," he said.

Patin, who is also a director of programmes at France Television, the country's public broadcaster, said he had spoken to Chauveau about the allegations and launched an independent inquiry into the claims. She has been temporarily suspended in the meantime.

Chauveau, who has a doctorate in history and specialises in media history, was accused of lifting the material, originally used in her weekly radio broadcast on the France Culture station, from online and printed publications without attribution. While this might have gone unnoticed on radio, a column based on the broadcast appeared on the Huffington Post a few days later.

The alleged plagiarism was uncovered by the news website Arret Sur Images (ASI) after it complained that Chauveau had used material from one of its articles about the future of the press on digital tablets, without citing its original research. ASI said it ran an online plagiarism check on other Chauveau columns. It described her as a "serial copier".

Contacted by ASI, Chauveau said she had "forgotten to cite certain papers, but never on purpose", and insisted: "I've rectified this each time there's been a problem." She said she did not "have time to cite all her sources on the radio".

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Journalism school boss accused of plagiarism
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