Richmond Times-Dispatch - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:26:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Richmond Times-Dispatch - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Thanks to Predecessor’s Plagiarism, Richmond Newspaper’s New Food Critic Will Have to Re-Review 22 Restaurants https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/09/07/thanks-to-predecessors-plagiarism-richmond-newspapers-new-food-critic-will-have-to-re-review-22-restaurants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thanks-to-predecessors-plagiarism-richmond-newspapers-new-food-critic-will-have-to-re-review-22-restaurants Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:26:57 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=203140 The Richmond Times-Dispatch has hired a new food critic, Executive Editor Paige Mudd told readers in a note Tuesday evening. Without naming him, she writes, “He’s local, he’s a great writer, he’s very knowledgeable about the industry and he’s passionate about food.” That better be the case, because whoever this is has a daunting opening assignment: […]

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A Food Critic’s Plagiarism Roils Richmond Journalism https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/08/03/elliott-shaffner-plagiarism-richmond-times-dispatch-style-richmond-magazine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elliott-shaffner-plagiarism-richmond-times-dispatch-style-richmond-magazine Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:11:34 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=199630 Richmond Times-Dispatch executive editor Paige Mudd was about to go into a meeting last Thursday when she received a disturbing email. It was a tip that said Elliott Shaffner, who became the newspaper’s dining critic in January, had lifted passages from a 2011 LA Weekly restaurant story by the Pulitzer-winning critic Jonathan Gold in that day’s review of the New Grand Market in Midlothian, Virginia. “I had to […]

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