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Time magazine and CNN have revoked the suspension of columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria, who was suspended last week by both outlets for alleged plagiarism. CNN said that Zakaria’s weekly ‘GPS’ public affairs program will resume from August 26. According to Fox News, Time magazine, in a separate statement, said that Zakaria’s column would resume from September 7 issue. According to the report, Zakaria was suspended by both media outlets for lifting several paragraphs from a New Yorker magazine essay to be used for an article in his Time column. A version of that column, which examined gun control, was subsequently posted on CNN's website. Zakaria apologized, acknowledging it as a ‘terrible mistake’. CNN and Time said that each had conducted a thorough review and found Zakaria’s recent ‘journalistic lapse’ to be an isolated incident, the report added.

Time, CNN reinstate Fareed Zakaria after finding ‘journalistic lapse’ was isolated