Seattle Times Writer Admits Plagiarism, Resigns
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A business columnist at the Seattle  Times resigned after admitting that he copied the work of other  journalists, the newspaper's executive editor said in a  front-page article published at the weekend.
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"I am resigning because between the love of my family and that of power, I choose the former."  Italy's justice minister offered his resignation Wednesday after the start of a corruption investigation involving his wife, but Premier Romano Prodi quickly rejected it. via The Oregonian
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The publisher of a conservative Catholic journal and leader of GOP efforts to reach out to Catholics says he's resigning as a Bush campaign adviser because of what he called "personal attacks" over allegations involving an episode with a female student years ago.
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Gov. James E. McGreevey submitted his letter of resignation on Monday, ending a tenure doomed by a shocking summertime disclosure he had engaged in a gay, extramarital affair.
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Disgraced prosecutor Mike Nifong submitted a new letter of resignation Monday, agreeing to leave office immediately.
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The editor of Russia&#39;s respected Izvestia daily said Monday he was stepping down in a dispute with his publisher over the paper&#39;s critical coverage of the school hostage standoff
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In refusing job cuts at the Los Angeles Times, publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson has transformed himself in the eyes of Times employees.
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Christine Beatty, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's chief of staff, said Monday she is resigning amid allegations that she and the mayor lied under oath about an affair.
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Joyce Hattoâs reputation for excellence and originality has been shaken by a charge of plagiarism.
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John Curley, a former deputy managing editor of The San Francisco Chronicle, announced he was let go by posting the news on Flickr, the photo-sharing Web site.
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WASHINGTON -- Steve Coll, The Washington Post&#39;s managing editor since 1998, is stepping down to focus on writing books, the paper reported Wednesday.
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Steve Coll, The Washington Post&#39;s managing editor since 1998, is stepping down to focus on writing books, the paper reported Wednesday.
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Gary Min, a former research scientist at DuPont, pleaded guilty to stealing $400 million in trade secrets by downloading the information from the company's electronic library in late 2005 before leaving to take a job at another firm.
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A recently fired U.S. attorney based in Seattle said yesterday that he was told of no performance problems when he was asked to resign, and he called critical remarks by a top Justice Department official "unfair" and inaccurate.
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The head of a trade association that represents competitors of the large regional telephone companies resigned after his lobbying blueprint was published by mistake on the Federal Communications Commission's Web site. -The Washington Post
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The chief editor of a Chinese newspaper resigned after it came to light that one of its photographers had faked a prize-winning photograph of endangered Tibetan antelopes appearing undaunted by a controversial railway.
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Eric Alterman, perhaps the first writer to get a blog on a mainstream national news site, has been dismissed after 10 years by MSNBC.com.