Washington Post suspends Pulitzer Prize-winning for three months for lifting material from another US daily

The Washington Post has suspended Pulitzer Prize-winning Sari Horwitz reporter for three months for lifting material from another US newspaper.

Sari Horwitz, who won America's top journalism award with a colleague in 2002, was found to have used "substantial" parts of two articles from the Arizona Republic in her stories without attribution, the Post said. "It is the Post's policy that the use of material from other newspapers or sources must be properly attributed," it said.

Meanwhile, Horwitz apologized in a statement published by the Post. "I am deeply sorry. To our readers, my friends and colleagues, my editors, and to the paper I love, I want to apologize," she said. "Under the pressure of tight deadlines, I did something I have never done in my entire career. I used another newspaper's work as if it were my own. It was wrong. It was inexcusable. And it is one of the cardinal sins in journalism."