After the plagiarism was noticed on the internet forum Flashback, Dagens Nyheter went through the texts signed "Nyhetsredaktionen".
They have found that 20 of them have been identical to texts from other publications and that no source of origin has been indicated.
The texts are plagiarism on, among other things, press releases.
- That should not happen, you should always state the source, says Bulletin's editor-in-chief Ivar Arpi.
In two cases it is also about plagiarism from other newspapers, in one case a text from the newspaper Ottar and in the other from the newspaper Byggarbetaren.
- There are two articles that have been identical to articles from other publications.
And it's worse.
It was about the wrong employees in the wrong place who did not get enough support from the managers, says Ivar Arpi.
Ivar Arpi says that the employee who published the plagiarism has now been given other tasks.
Has the person or persons responsible at the time, for example a news director, also been given other tasks?
- Yes, but it's about other things as well, but the person who worked as news director then does not do it today, says Ivar Arpi.
Former employees left after dissatisfaction with management
Bulletin has since the start said that they want to focus on quality and recruited many experienced and profiled journalists and opinion leaders.
One of them is the former Ekot reporter Negar Josephi, who chose to quit Bulletin's newsroom in December.
She writes on her Twitter account that she "was not satisfied with the news work and how it was conducted" and that her demands "were much higher both in terms of views on news journalism and press ethics".
- It may stand for her what she expresses there, but it had nothing to do with this, more than that I do not want to comment, says Ivar Arpi.
Negar Josephi does not want to say more than what she wrote on Twitter about why she left Bulletin's newsroom, but she defends Ivar Arpi as editor-in-chief:
- Ivar has nothing to do with plagiarism.
He struggles daily to correct mistakes that have been made, she tells Kulturnyheterna.
Ivar Arpi says that the plagiarism was published in a phase when they were a new editorial office and that they did not have good enough control of the employees' level.
- Then mistakes can happen.
Now we have established routines and structures so that something like this will never happen again, says Ivar Arpi.
Ivar Arpi took over as editor-in-chief from Paulina Neuding on 12 February.
Negar Josephi is still employed by Bulletin to produce Ivar Arpi's podcast.