Journalistic Values

A colleague on your news staff has written a blog that was published online. As you read it, you discover that a couple of sentences seem familiar. You do some investigating and find that your colleague has plagiarized from a newspaper column. What do you do?

First, I would approach my colleague and show him my finding, perhaps he did not realized he plagiarized. I would then have him retract the article and release a formal apology. If I discover he intentionally plagiarized, I would report him to whoever is in charge of the blog.