Margaret Wente

Margaret Wente
Born (1950-02-15) 15 February 1950 (age 74)
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
CitizenshipAmerican and Canadian
EducationBA (University of Michigan)
MA, English (University of Toronto)
OccupationColumnist
SpouseIan McLeod

Margaret Wente (born 15 February 1950) is a Canadian journalist and was a long-time columnist for The Globe and Mail until August 2019. She received the National Newspaper Award for column-writing in 2000 and 2001.[1][2] In 2012, Wente was found to have plagiarized on a number of occasions. She was suspended from writing her column, but later reinstated. However, in 2016, she was found to have failed to meet her newspaper's attribution standards in two more columns.[3]

  1. ^ "Multiple Winners". National Newspaper Awards. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Margaret Wente", The Globe and Mail, retrieved 21 September 2012
  3. ^ Craig, Sean (24 April 2016), "The Globe And Mail Has Confirmed Margaret Wente Plagiarized Again", Buzzfeed