Jack Kelley

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Jack Kelley was a longtime USA Today correspondent and nominee for the Pulitzer Prize.

He is perhaps best known for his professional downfall in March 2004, when it came out that he had long been fabricating stories, going so far as to write up scripts so associates could pretend to be sources.

The newspaper conducted an extensive review of Kelley's stories, going so far as to send investigators, including editor Mark Memmott to Cuba, Israel, and Jordan, to sift through stacks of hotel records to determine if Kelley was where he claimed to be filing stories from. Kelley resigned, but denied the charges. The USA Today publisher, Craig Moon, issued a public apology on the front page of the newspaper. The scandal led to the resignations of several key staff at the newspaper, including editor Karen Jurgensen in April 2004.

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