A reporter is covering a concert and needs to leave early because of a family emergency. She doesn't want to let her publisher down, so she writes the concert review as if she were there the entire time, even mentioning the encore performance for which she wasn't there. This reporter is fired due to

Question 8 options:

Libel

Slander

Plagiarism

Fabrication

This reporter after leaving the concert that she was supposed to report on for the entire event and then reported as though she was there the entire time would have been fired for fabrication.

Libel is a written defamation of someone's person (i. e. character, personality, or anything about them).

Slander is the verbal defamation.

Plagiarism would be if she completely copied another reporters report about the concert.