The Riverfront Times has a lengthy investigative profile of the disgraced journalist Juan Thompson, who was fired from The Intercept in January after his editors discovered several instances of fabrication in his stories.
Reporter Fabricated Quotes, Invented Sources at The Intercept
The Intercept disclosed today that a former reporter for the national-security focused website fabricated quotes and invented sources for a number of stories published last year. According to a post published on Tuesday afternoon by editor-in-chief Betsy Reed, that reporter, Juan Thompson, went so far as to register…
Quote-Fabricating 'Self-Plagiarizing' New Yorker Writer Jonah Lehrer Finally Resigns
The New York Times' Julie Bosman reports that Jonah Lehrer, the precocious New Yorker writer who was caught fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in his book Imagine, has resigned from the magazine. Here's his statement, via Bosman's Twitter feed:
