More Cheating in Journalism

Jack Kelley, was a respected USA Today reporter who had risked his life filing stories from war zones in the Balkans and Middle East. He resigned in early January 2004 after editors at the paper investigated whether some of his stories were fabricated.

	Reporter resigns after probe
	Kelley confessed deception, according to USA Today story
	USA Today conducts probe of all of Kelley's work
	Kelley's comments about his demise

Charlie LeDuff

New York Times reporter Charlie LeDuff landed in hot water in late 2003 for allegedly making generous use of an author's book without acknowledgment. The story resulted in a correction from the Times and an ongoing examination of LeDuff's previous work.

	Jack Shafer's Slate column lays out the LeDuff case
	Conservatives pounce on LeDuff flap

Mike Barnicle

A popular Boston Globe columnist, Barnicle was exposed (and sued) over and over regarding the lies found in his columns. Eventually, the paper was forced to fire him when his column regarding interracial friendships in cancer wards was found to be completely made up. He currently commands close to $10,000 per speaking engagement.

	Salon: Repeat Offender
	Mike Barnicle's current job: columnist and radio host
	Boston Phoenix: Striking Similarities

Patricia Smith

A finalist for the Pulitzer, Patricia Smith of The Boston Globe was asked to resign in 1998 when it was discovered that she had created quotes in four of her columns for the paper.

	Salon: Confabulation Crisis
	CNN.com: Boston Globe columnist resigns

Michael Finkel

An ambitious journalist who had written cover stories for The New York Times Magazine, Finkel's story about slaves in Mali was discovered to have glaring inaccuracies that confused names, depictions of events, and pictures. Finkel's punishment? A six-figure book advance

	New York Observer: Why Finkel made things up
	The New York Times: Editor's Note
	New York: The Great Pretender

Christopher Newton

This AP reporter was fired in September 2002 for fabricating numerous sources in nearly 40 articles.

	Slate's Jack Shafer: Lessons of the Newton affair.
	New York Times article on incident.

Janet Cooke

A respected Washington Post reporter, Janet Cooke received the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for her story on Jimmy, an eight year old heroin addict living in the slums of D.C. The story was entirely concocted, and Cooke was fired from WaPo and returned the Pulitzer. Recently, Cooke cashed in with a lucrative movie deal.

	Cooke gets 55% cut from $1.6 million movie deal
	Washington Post: The Perils of Press Arrogance