February 25: Portfolio’s Zubin Jelveh publishes a definitive article about NYU’s David Yermack and his research into CEOs’ gifts to their family foundations.
March 5: The WSJ and NYT write copycat pieces. Maybe they thought that if they waited for over a week, Zubin’s reporting would automatically become Old News and they could pretend that what they were writing was fresh.
(HT: Abnormal Returns)