Award Winning Journalist: “I am sick and I need to get help.” – IOTW Report

Award Winning Journalist: “I am sick and I need to get help.”

Dan Bongino: An award-winning reporter and editor for German magazine Der Spiegel has resigned after admitting to fabricating stories and sources, as well as making up quotes for his articles.

Claas Relotius wrote about 60 articles for the magazine and was the recipient of CNN’s 2014 “Journalist of the Year” award.

Relotius told Der Spiegel, “I am sick and I need to get help.”

Some of Relotius’ fabricated works include a phone interview with the parents of NFL player Colin Kaepernick, and a story about a woman in the U.S. who claimed to have witnessed executions of death row inmates.

Fox News reports:

Relotius also drew the fury of locals in Fergus Falls, Minn., after spending three weeks in town and fabricating facts, characters and quotes from people in an effort to portray the town in a negative light.  MORE

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