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Der Spiegel says top journalist faked stories for years
Source: Agence France-Presse
Der Spiegel says top journalist faked stories for years
Agence France-Presse in Frankfurt
Wed 19 Dec 2018 16.15 GMT
The German news weekly Der Spiegel has stunned the media world by revealing that one of its award-winning reporters falsified stories for years.
Claas Relotius “made up stories and invented protagonists” in at least 14 out of 60 articles that appeared in the magazine’s print and online editions, Spiegel said, warning that other outlets could also be affected.
Relotius, 33, resigned after admitting to the scam. He had written for the magazine for seven years and won numerous awards for his investigative journalism, including CNN Journalist of the Year in 2014.
This month he was named German Reporter of the Year for a story about a young Syrian boy.
The falsification came to light after a colleague who worked with him on a story along the US-Mexican border raised suspicions about some of the details in Relotius’s reporting.
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Agence France-Presse in Frankfurt
Wed 19 Dec 2018 16.15 GMT
The German news weekly Der Spiegel has stunned the media world by revealing that one of its award-winning reporters falsified stories for years.
Claas Relotius “made up stories and invented protagonists” in at least 14 out of 60 articles that appeared in the magazine’s print and online editions, Spiegel said, warning that other outlets could also be affected.
Relotius, 33, resigned after admitting to the scam. He had written for the magazine for seven years and won numerous awards for his investigative journalism, including CNN Journalist of the Year in 2014.
This month he was named German Reporter of the Year for a story about a young Syrian boy.
The falsification came to light after a colleague who worked with him on a story along the US-Mexican border raised suspicions about some of the details in Relotius’s reporting.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/19/top-der-spiegel-journalist-resigns-over-fake-interviews
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Donny was onto something. But he's been accusing the wrong media outlets! What a bozo!
