{"id":234596,"date":"2026-05-17T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234596\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:36:09","slug":"new-york-magazine-investigating-plagiarism-claims-against-writer-ross-barkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234596\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;New York&#8217; magazine investigating plagiarism claims against writer Ross Barkan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine is reviewing past articles from one of its columnists just days after he was hit with plagiarism allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The contributor,\u00a0Ross Barkan, was accused of ripping off other writers in at least three articles published recently in the magazine \u2014 including a Washington Post\u00a0report from last week on Ben Shapiro and questions over the health of his conservative media empire.<\/p>\n<p>Barkan, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RossBarkan\/status\/2055861538787909917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">strenuously denied<\/a> the plagiarism claims, was called out on social media after Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell posted screenshots that pointed out near-identical paragraphs in the two stories. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.66233766;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39405656\" width=\"981\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/www-youtube-com-watch-v-128033545.jpg\" alt=\"New York Magazine writer Ross Barkan speaks into a microphone.\" class=\"wp-image-39405656\"  \/>New York Magazine is said to be reviewing past articles from one of its columnists, Ross Barkan, just days after he was hit with plagiarism allegations. The Honest Broker \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, the magazine revised the first paragraph of Barkan\u2019s article to include a direct mention of the WaPo reporter and included an editor\u2019s note at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis story has been updated to credit reporting from the Washington Post,\u201d the note stated.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the scrutiny, an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BobbyAllyn\/status\/2055384515733061668?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NPR reporter<\/a> said he had subsequently uncovered two other examples of Barkan allegedly \u201cpilfering\u201d from other writers from the Intercept and Compact Magazine after running his past work through an AI model.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy has spurred the magazine to examine Barkan\u2019s past work, a rep confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.39699864;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39405657\" width=\"824\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/nymag-com-128034034.jpg\" alt=\"New York Magazine home page.\" class=\"wp-image-39405657\"  \/>The controversy has spurred the magazine to examine Barkan\u2019s past work, a rep confirmed. New York Magazine<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are conducting a review of the writer\u2019s prior work,\u201d\u00a0a spokesperson for the mag, Lauren Starke, told The Post. <\/p>\n<p>Barkan, for his part, lashed out on X over the saga \u2014 denying he ever blatantly stole other writers\u2019 work, insisting he \u201cproperly hyperlinked and cited\u201d where necessary. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween Crain\u2019s and New York Magazine in the last calendar year, I have published something like 150 columns. A story is currently being written about *3.* One was updated with proper citation, and the other two had proper citations already,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Multiple\u2019 is barely any out of *hundreds* and most are incredibly weak examples. This is the definition of a non-story. I am proud of my record, and it speaks for itself. I\u2019ll put it up against anyone\u2019s in this industry, including your own,\u201d he added in a follow up post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Magazine is reviewing past articles from one of its columnists just days after he was hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1208,9,11,2409,10,27180,58],"class_list":["post-234596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-media","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-magazine","tag-new-york-news","tag-reporter","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}