German Journalist Claas Relotius of "Der Spiegel" who previously won awards such as "CNN-Journalist of the Year" has admitted to falsifying and making up large parts of his pieces. This all came to light when his co-author, working with him on a piece an Arizona militia, started investigating him for making up facts as he went.
I'm currently trying to find english news sources on this, the story broke just a few hours ago.
EDIT: Der Spiegel has published an english version of their writeup regarding the case. http://www.spiegel.de/international...o-the-most-important-questions-a-1244653.html
EDIT2: Posted a bit prematurely, it's not the full writeup, I hope it will be translated as well
From his Wikipedia Page:
For context (from my perception):
I'm currently trying to find english news sources on this, the story broke just a few hours ago.
EDIT: Der Spiegel has published an english version of their writeup regarding the case. http://www.spiegel.de/international...o-the-most-important-questions-a-1244653.html
EDIT2: Posted a bit prematurely, it's not the full writeup, I hope it will be translated as well
From his Wikipedia Page:
On 19 December 2018, Der Spiegel made public that Relotius had admitted that he had "falsified his articles on a grand scale", inventing facts, persons and quotations in no fewer than 14 of the stories that it had published.[4][5] Der Spiegel uncovered the fraud after a co-author of one of Relotius's stories, Juan Moreno, became suspicious of the veracity of Relotius's contributions and gathered evidence against him.[5] Relotius resigned from the magazine, telling Der Spiegel that he was "sick" and needed to get help. Der Spiegel left his articles accessible, with a notice referring to the magazine's ongoing investigation into the fraud.[4]
For context (from my perception):
- "Der Spiegel" is a left leaning magazine, I read a bunch of its online content and political bias seems to depend heavily on the author, more moderate Authors tend to get a lot of flack in the comments, their feminist writers definitely went off the deep end years ago and they also get flack in the comments
- it may be worth noting that I get the feeling that whenever they publish articles that are clearly biased they disable comments, but that may just be my perception
- During the 2016 Democratic Primaries my perception was that their publications were heavily biased towards Hilary Clinton, all the criticism of the media wrt disadvantaging Bernie Sanders applied to spiegel.de as well
- I would say their youth magazine "bento" is definitely far left publishing articles trying to explain away that 31,4% of all convicted criminals in 2016 in Germany have been non German.
- The co-author who investigated the fraud was made out to be a villian at his workplace leading up to the uncovering because no one believed him (according to the Article published on spiegel.de)
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