stephen glass
Stephen Glass (born 1972) is an American former journalist, known for serial fraud in his articles. [1]
But Stephen Glass knew how to subvert the process, because he himself had been a fact-checker at the magazine. [2]
Hayden Christensen, left, stars with Chloe Sevigny and Melanie Lynskey in “Shattered Glass,” a film that tells the story of how Stephen Glass fabricated articles for The New Republic. [3]
Great stories, both false–cribbed from articles by Stephen Glass in the New Republic. [4]
Lane didn’t know then that Stephen Glass had always been good at such risky business. [5]
Stephen Glass worked at the New Republic for 29 months and wrote 41 pieces. [6]
Glass, a 25-year-old rising star at The New Republic, wrote dozens of high-profile articles for a number of national publications in which he made things up. [2]
Glass was fired last week by TNR after a Forbes reporter alerted TNR editor Charles Lane that an article about a teen-age computer hacker (”Hack Heaven,” May 18) was full of fabrications, and Lane’s own investigation confirmed that Glass had made things up wholesale in many New Republic pieces. [4]
Or the utter conviction with which Glass had presented work that Lane now feared was completely fabricated. [5]
The new movie “Shattered Glass” believes that Stephen Glass’s mad genius made it impossible to stop him before he was caught. [6]
Glass’ main job was at The New Republic, a distinguished magazine with a 90-year history of publishing political and social commentary. [2]
After the scandal broke, the magazine’s majority owner and editor in chief, Martin Peretz, would admit that his wife had told him that she found Glass’s stories incredible and had stopped reading them. [1]
As editor of The New Republic, a Washington-based weekly magazine known for its lively stories about politics and public policy, Lane discovered he had just published a totally fabricated article by Stephen Glass, who once was considered the publication’s fastest rising star. [3]
It all seemed increasingly bizarre to Lane, who had brought Glass to the Hyatt, the supposed setting for one of those bogus stories, to see if the young man could explain it all away somehow. [5]
Before he was 30, he had front page articles and was making a six-figure salary, publishing articles in Slate, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, and George. [7]
Sources:
[1] Stephen Glass (reporter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] CBS News - Stephen Glass: I Lied For Esteem
[3] Stephen Glass‘ former colleagues say journalist’s deception should have …
[4] Glass Houses - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
[5] Shattered Glass | vanityfair.com
[6] Stopping Stephen Glass
[7] Stephen Glass