Press

Press Contact

If are a member of the press seeking to contact me regarding a story on plagiarism, copyright, spam or any related issues, feel free to contact me at the following email address:

jonathan (at) plagiarismtoday (dot) com

I am typically able to respond to all inquiries within a few hours to inquiries sent within normal business hours central time.

Sample Past Press

The Guardian

August 7, 2008

“Jonathan Bailey, editor of the Plagiarism Today blog, notes that a YouTube video already explains to other spammers how to use Knol to push their results up Google’s rankings. Google has already come under fire for the sheer amount of spam hosted on its free Blogspot blogs - and now that may be repeated on Knol.”

July 12, 2007

“Chasing sploggers, generally, is not worth it. The software that these guys use can generate thousands of spam blogs an hour. Even the people who gave them the blog to use don’t know who they really are,” says Bailey.

Boston Globe

May 8, 2006

“Jonathan Bailey, the author of Plagiarism Today, a blog dedicated to the issue of plagiarism online, said this type of cut-and-paste plagiarism is widespread. At any given moment, Bailey said, he’s helping up to 25 bloggers who have been plagiarized — people like Jennifer Woodard Maderazo, whose Latino blog has been regularly plagiarized. There’s even a sex blogger who found that entries were being pilfered.”

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March 29, 2008

“I’m out here in Dallas, today, mingling and covering live the events from WordCamp Dallas 2008. Up next is a speech from Jonathan Bailey, author of started Plagiarism Today.”

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August 2, 2007

“Pretty much any site that puts out an RSS feed is going to get scraped, said Jonathan Bailey, Webmaster of Plagiarism Today. Typically, it’s the same people sending out the herbal Viagra junk e-mail, he said.”

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Sept 4, 2007

To Catch a Thief: Tools and Tips to Combat Digital Content Plagiarism

Aug 29, 2006

RSS Rights and Wrongs: How Do You Tell if Content Reuse is Fair or Foul?