Ex-New York Magazine writer announces he will 'take some time away' after plagiarism scandal

Former New York Magazine writer and The Metropolitan Review editor-in-chief Ross Barkan apologized once again after several plagiarism allegations against him and revealed Wednesday he plans to "self-reflect" with some time away.

"Let me first begin by saying I'm sorry. I truly am sorry for the mistakes I made," Barkan wrote on X. 

"None of them, genuinely, were willful or intentional. In the course of writing many columns a week, I did not use citations as aggressively as I should have and did not paraphrase well enough.