Stephen Glass
Summary
Stephen Glass (born 1972) is a former American journalist, known best for serial fraud in his articles, described by his former journalistic editor and mentor Michael Kelly "as a pathological liar and sociopath, who was simply addicted to the con, to the thrill of tricking people.". Over a three-year period as a young rising star at the neoliberal national magazine, The New Republic (TNR), from 1995 to 1998, he fabricated quotations, sources, and even entire events in articles he wrote for that magazine and others. He was fired when his deceptions came to light. His career at TNR was dramatized in the film Shattered Glass.
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10 Great Moments in Web Journalism Besides Deadspin's Manti Scoop
Brett Favre’s penis was certainly a big deal, so to speak. But Manti Te'o’s imaginary/made up deadgirlfriend has thrust Gawker Media's Deadspin into the spotlight like never before. As of noon Friday, the bombshell about the Notre Dame star’s lover who never was has accounted for 3.
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Newsroom responses to Zakaria plagiarism reveal lack of consistency, transparency
The Fareed Zakaria plagiarism scandal has an interesting unintended consequence: it highlights how media outlets respond differently to plagiarism and fabrication cases.
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Welcome to Britain, a home fit for shysters | Nick Cohen
In America, plagiarists and cheats lose their livelihoods. Our fabricating journalists and authors are allowed write on and to bully their critics.
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For those who expose journalistic frauds, fame is fleeting
Michael C. Moynihan, the writer who detected Jonah Lehrer’s fabrication of Bob Dylan quotes, is pretty sure his role in the matter will be forgotten before too long. [View the story "The fleeting fame of those… Read more.
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Ira Glass says he hasn’t talked to Mike Daisey since ‘Retraction’ aired
WBEZ Ira Glass gave his first interview after the Mike Daisey mess to Alison Cuddy the weekend before last. Some of the things he told her (transcription and any errors within are mine, not WBEZ’s):.
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‘This American Life’ pulls too-good-to-be-true Stephen Glass stories (again)
This American Life | Poynter In the wake of its retraction of Mike Daisey’s exposé on Apple, “This American Life” has pulled three Stephen Glass stories done in the late 1990s. In a Friday blog post, the show… Read more.
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The unanswered questions about ‘This American Life’ and journalism
It’s rare for a program to dedicate an entire episode to retracting a previous episode and to issue a press release explaining why. “This American Life” has put time and resources into retracting “Mr. Daisey Goes to… Read more.
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Daisey: Falsehoods don’t undermine larger truth about Apple manufacturing
Mike Daisey | Gawker Mike Daisey added a prologue and cut some portions from his monologue after “This American Life” retracted its story based on his critique of Apple’s manufacturing, but he is doubling down on… Read more.
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How ‘This American Life’ Let Itself Get Burned By An Apple Fabulist
You can’t say nobody warned the producers of “This American Life” that Mike Daisey’s epic story about Apple‘s Foxconn factory in China might be the work of an untrustworthy individual. Someone did, in fact, give them plenty of advance warning: the untrustworthy individual in question.
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Yes, Of Course Stephen Glass Should Be Able To Practice Law In California
A decade and a half ago, a 25-year old journalist named Stephen Glass was busted for having committed one of the cardinal sins of the profession: Making stuff up.
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