Washington Post Lost Pulitzer Prize by Faking News

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Janet Cooke, a WashPo reporter who was forced to admit that her award-winning story about an alleged 8-year-old heroin addict in Washington, D.C., was all a fabrication.

As noted by The Hoax Project at the University of Maryland, her story, "Jimmy's World," was said to be based on interviews with the boy, his mother and his mother's boyfriend. But after several aspects of her story began to collapse under scrutiny, she had to acknowledge that she never met or interviewed anyone like that, "and that she made up the story of Jimmy based on a composite of information about heroin addiction in Washington" gleaned from various sources.

The admission came after other revelations that key statements she had given in an autobiographical report to Pulitzer officials were also false. Cooke told the committee she graduated magna cum laude from Vasser College and held a master's degree from the University of Toledo. But she only attended Vasser for a year, and graduated from the University of Toledo with a bachelor of arts.

Eventually, she resigned from the Post and the paper had to return the prize.

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