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Janet Leslie Cooke (born July 23, 1954) is an American former journalist. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for an article written for The Washington Post.The story was later discovered to have been fabricated and Cooke returned the prize, the only person to date to do so, [1] after admitting she had fabricated stories.
In 1981, Janet Cooke, a staff writer on the Post's "Weeklies" section, received the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for her story, "Jimmy's World," a profile of an eight-year-old heroin addict in Washington, D.C. [64] The Post later returned the award when the newspaper revealed the story had been fabricated.
(Prize was originally awarded to Janet Cooke of The Washington Post for "Jimmy's World", a story about an eight-year-old heroin addict. [22] The award was returned after it was discovered that the story was a fabrication. [23]) Douglas J. Swanson of the Dallas Times Herald, for a collection of five stories. [24]
(The prize in this category was originally awarded to Janet Cooke of The Washington Post, but was revoked after it was revealed that her winning story about an 8-year-old heroin addict was fabricated.) 1982: Saul Pett, Associated Press, "for an article profiling the federal bureaucracy."
Janet Cooke – journalist forced to return a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story (claimed to have had a degree but did not) [20] Mike D (Michael Diamond) – rapper (Beastie Boys) Jane Fonda (graduated from The Actors Studio) – actress; Katharine Graham (graduated from the University of Chicago) – publisher of The Washington Post
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Art Tatum, at the Vogue Room, New York (between 1946 and 1948) The city of Toledo, Ohio, the largest city and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, is the birthplace and home of several notable individuals. This is a list of people from Toledo, Ohio and includes people that were born or lived in Toledo, Ohio and the surrounding area. Individuals included in this listing are people presumed to ...
Janet Cooke, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her fictitious Washington Post story about an eight-year-old heroin addict named Jimmy. Sidd Finch, a fictitious yogi and pitcher who threw a 168 mph ball, supposedly discovered by the Mets and profiled by George Plimpton in Sports Illustrated for April Fool's Day 1985. [1] The Flemish Secession hoax ...