USA Today Reporter: Used 'Poor Judgment' (Jack Kelley)

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Sunday January 11, 2004 4:46 am

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pulitzer Prize finalist Jack Kelley says he "panicked and used poor judgment" during an investigation into his stories for USA Today that led to his departure from the newspaper.

While defending his work with the paper and saying he still stands behind
every story written during a 21-year career there, Kelley told The
Washington Post he resigned because he made an indefensible mistake in
attempting to defend himself.

Specifically, he said in an effort to prove he had spoken with a human rights
activist in Yugoslavia, he encouraged a translator who was not present
during a 1999 meeting with the activist to impersonate another translator
who was there. He told the Post the woman who agreed to help him called the
USA Today journalist assigned to investigate the matter last fall and verified
Kelley's account as if she had been there.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3611122,00.html

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about a zillion to go. Can we expect similar reports about Novak, Hannity, Limbaug, Broder, Schmitz, Simon, et. al. soon?