The media is usually the bearer of bad news, but what happens when one of their own violates the journalistic code of ethics?
In what is becoming an all too common occurrence, veteran reporter Karen Jeffrey from the Cape Cod Times was called out this week for being a serial fabricator. Apparently, she’d been making up sources dating back to at least the 1990s.
“In an audit of Jeffrey’s work, Times editors have been unable to find 69 people in 34 stories since 1998, when we began archiving stories electronically,” Times editors wrote this week in an apology to readers.
According to journalism think tank Poynter.org, this is the third instance this year of a mass fabrication by journalists. That’s on top of other instances of fabrication that don’t fall into the “serial” category.
Read more at Ragan’s PR Daily.
