Courier-Mail columnist Peter Gleeson weathers scandal as more plagiarism revealed | The Weekly Beast

Journalist apologises for 'unintentional' lifting of material from political analysis written by Josh Bavas and is revealed to have copied Queensland parliament factsheet. Plus: Quillette charges US$150 for New Orleans socialIn an opinion piece in March, the Courier-Mail columnist Peter Gleeson - who apologised this week for plagiarising another journalist's work - filled 62% of his article with copy from a Queensland parliament factsheet.In his Gleeso Confidential column, the former editor of the Sunday Mail used hundreds of words from the official document without quotation marks, Weekly Beast can reveal. Continue reading...