George Orwel

"This article is about the reporter George Orwel. For the twentieth century writer, see George Orwell."

George Orwel is a Brooklyn, New York City, New York-based reporter who writes for several oil-industry publications and has appeared on national cable news programs, such as CNN, as an oil analyst. [cite web|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/06/lol.01.html|title=CNN.com Transcripts: "Gas price watch"|accessdate=2007-11-24|author=CNN] He's also been published in the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor.

In November 2007 allegations Orwel had plagiarized Wikipedia in his 2006 book "Black Gold: The New Frontier in Oil for Investors" were reported by the New York Times and confirmed by his publisher, John Wiley & Sons. [cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/technology/19wiki.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |title=Part of an Oil Book Relied on Wikipedia New York times |accessdate=2007-11-24 |date=2007-11-19 |author=Noam Cohen] The Times reported Orwel's book included several paragraphs almost verbatim from a 2005 version of the Khobar Towers bombing article. [ [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khobar_Towers_bombing&oldid=33336249 2005 version of the Wikipedia Khobar Towers bombing article] ] The publisher said the mistake was not intentional and promised to include attribution for those few gaps in later reprints. Fact|date=June 2008

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*cite book |last=Orwel |first=George |title=Black Gold: The New Frontier in Oil for Investors |year=2006 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=New York |isbn=978-0-471-79268-0
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ydorb/khobar-copyvio&oldid=172928170 Comments and analysis by primary author of plagiarized Wikipedia article]