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http://www.newsru.co.il/world/23dec2018/grenell444.html
...На прошлой неделе стало известно, что Клаас Релоциус, ведущий репортер Der Spiegel, удостоенный телеканалом CNN звания "Журналист года" и обладатель ряда других престижных наград, на протяжении семи лет публиковал в различных изданиях фейковую информацию, откровенно манипулировал фактами и зачастую просто выдумывал свои материалы. В числе такого рода статей фигурируют и те, за которые Релоциус получал различные премии.

33-летний журналист признал, что сфабриковал не менее 14 историй, в том числе материалы об иммигрантах, о событиях на мексиканской границе, о знаке "Мексиканцам вход запрещен", якобы увиденном им в штате Миннесота, а также о военной тюрьме в Гуантанамо и о Колине Капернике, бывшем квотербеке футбольного клуба "Сан-Франциско"...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius
Claas Relotius

Claas-Hendrik Relotius (born 15 November 1985)[3] is a German journalist. He resigned from Der Spiegel in 2018 after admitting numerous instances of journalistic fraud.[4]
Career

As a freelance reporter, Relotius wrote for a number of German-language publications, including Cicero, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Financial Times Deutschland, taz, Die Welt, SZ-Magazin, Die Weltwoche, Zeit Online and Reportagen.[5]

In 2017, he became a staff journalist for Der Spiegel, which has published almost 60 articles by Relotius since 2011.[6][7] For his detailed reporting, Relotius received several awards, including the Deutscher Reporterpreis on four occasions and as recent as 2018.[8] Relotius' Reporterpreis 2018 award was for "Best Reportage", delivered in Berlin in early December,[9][10][11] for a story of "of unprecedented lightness, density and relevance, which never leaves open the sources on which it is based."[12] He was the CNN "Journalist of the Year" in 2014,[5] and won the European Press Prize in 2017.[13]

Reporting for which he was nominated or won prizes include articles about Iraqi children kidnapped by the Islamic State, a Guantánamo Bay inmate, and Syrian orphans working in Turkey.[14] In 2017, Der Spiegel sent Relotius for three weeks to Fergus Falls, Minnesota, "to write an article to give readers better insight into Americans."[15] These articles were all found to contain falsifications.[16]
Fabrication of stories

On 19 December 2018, Der Spiegel made public that Relotius had admitted that he had "falsified his articles on a grand scale", inventing facts, persons and quotations in at least 14 of his stories in Der Spiegel.[6][7] The magazine uncovered the fraud after a co-author of one of Relotius's articles, Juan Moreno, became suspicious of the veracity of Relotius's contributions and gathered evidence against him.[6] About a year earlier, two residents of Fergus Falls, Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn, suspected that Relotius' portrayal of their hometown was inaccurate.[16] They investigated on their own when efforts to contact Der Spiegel came to nothing.[17] They published their findings in a blog post on Medium, in which they detailed 11 of Relotius' most egregious errors. As Anderson put it, "In 7,300 words he really only got our town’s population and average annual temperature correct."[16]

Relotius' superiors initially supported him after he said the allegations made against him were false.[18] They even suspected that Moreno was slandering him. However, in the face of mounting evidence of Relotius' deceit, Özlem Gezer, the deputy head of the magazine's "Gesellschaft" (society) section and Relotius' immediate supervisor, confronted Relotius and told him she no longer believed him. The following day, Relotius confessed, and Der Spiegel forced his resignation, calling him "neither a reporter nor a journalist."[4] Relotius told his former colleagues that he was sick and needed to get help. Der Spiegel left his articles accessible for the time being, with a notice referring to the magazine's ongoing investigation into the fraud.[7] In the wake of the scandal, Relotius returned four awards he received from Deutscher Reporterpreis, and CNN revoked his 2014 Journalist of the Year award.[2] The issue of Der Spiegel published on 21 December covered the Relotius case over 23 pages with a plain orange cover.[19][20]

Richard Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, wrote to the magazine complaining about an anti-American institutional bias ("Anti-Amerikanismus") and asked for an independent investigation.[20][21]

The scandal was seized upon by critics of the mainstream media in Western countries, and was described as a moment of crisis for German journalism. Leaders of the far-right German party Alternative for Germany wrote that it confirmed their view of the media as a "lying press" (Lügenpresse), originally a claim made by the Nazis.[20][22]
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/21/der-spiegel-to-run-23-page-special-on-reporter-who-faked-stories-claas-relotius
Der Spiegel to run 23-page special on reporter who faked stories

German magazine calls Claas Relotius scam ‘worst thing that can happen’ to editorial team

Agence France-Presse in Berlin

Fri 21 Dec 2018 16.13 GMT
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Claas Relotius won a CNN award for his journalism in 2014.
Claas Relotius won a CNN award for his journalism in 2014. Photograph: Gert Krautbauer/EPA

The German news weekly Der Spiegel is to publish a 23-page special report on how one of its award-winning reporters faked stories for years and dealt a blow to media credibility.

Claas Relotius, 33, resigned after admitting making up stories and inventing protagonists in more than a dozen articles in the magazine’s print and online editions.

Since the scandal was revealed by the magazine on Wednesday, other mainstream German outlets including Die Welt and Die Zeit, which once used Relotius as a freelancer, have also begun poring through articles that he wrote for them.

“Tell it like it is,” wrote Der Spiegel on its latest magazine cover page, in an allusion to the publication’s motto coined by its founder, Rudolf Augstein, that also hangs at the entrance of its headquarters in Hamburg.
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In its editorial, the magazine said the scam, involving subjects including Syrian orphans and a Holocaust survivor, was the “worst thing that can happen to an editorial team”.

It also apologised for the mistake and promised to “do everything to boost our credibility again”.

Relotius had written for the magazine for seven years and won numerous awards for his investigative journalism, including CNN’s journalist of the year prize in 2014.

The cheating came to light after a colleague who worked with him on a story along the US-Mexican border raised suspicions about some of the details in Relotius’s reporting.
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The colleague eventually tracked down two alleged sources quoted extensively by Relotius in the article, which was published in November. Both said they had never met Relotius.

Der Spiegel said it was “lucky that one of our employees managed to uncover this case”.

But for others, the damage was already done, particularly at a time when disinformation campaigns are posing a constant challenge to the credibility of the mainstream media.

“The losers are all the journalists in the country who carry out their research in difficult or dangerous circumstances, as well as members of the editorial teams, who check through texts for quality and accuracy,” said Süddeutsche Zeitung in an editorial.

It noted that politicians in the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had seized on the case as “evidence of the dysfunctionality of the quality media”.

The AfD, whose supporters often attack the mainstream media as the “lying press”, has been openly gloating over the scandal.

One of its MPs, Götz Frömming tweeted: “Ironically, the Spiegel – the self-claimed leading media outlet that likes to slag off Trump, AfD and Co., has been for years delivering the best FakeNews via Relotius.”

The public broadcaster Deutsche Welle appealed to people not to condemn all mainstream media because of the “dangerous, isolated case”.

It said: “Before him there have also been other fraudsters who have fuelled the accusation of a lying press. But THE lying press doesn’t exist. Most of us are honestly, sincerely doing our work to give children like Alin and Ahmed from Aleppo a voice.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/23/anti-america-bias-der-spiegel-scandal-relotius
Der Spiegel takes the blame for scandal of reporter who faked stories
US ambassador says revelations prove magazine guilty of institutional bias, as far-right groups seek to exploit the case

Kate Connolly & Josie Le Blond Berlin

Sun 23 Dec 2018 09.00 GMT

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Claas Relotius at a CNN awards ceremony in 2014.
Claas Relotius at a CNN awards ceremony in 2014. Photograph: Gert Krautbauer/EPA

The US government has waded into the scandal of the German journalist for Der Spiegel magazine who faked stories on a grand scale over years, calling it proof of “institutional bias” in the media against America.

In a scathing letter to the magazine’s editors, Richard Grenell, US ambassador to Germany, claims the journalism of Claas Relotius, who resigned from the German news magazine last week, was symptomatic of anti-American bias across the mainstream media. “It is clear that we were the victims of a campaign of institutional bias,” Grenell wrote to Der Spiegel, in a letter also seen by the daily newspaper Bild. He said he was aghast at the way “anti-American coverage” had been facilitated by the magazine.

Relotius had made many reporting trips to the US, and at least three of the resultant stories are now known to have been entirely or partly made up. They include an article published in March 2018 about a 59-year-old woman who travelled by bus around America to witness death row executions. It emerged last week that it had been completely fabricated.
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Earlier this year Relotius interviewed 99-year-old Traute Laufrenz, the last survivor of the anti-Nazi White Rose resistance group, in Charleston, but at least parts of the text and details of when the interview took place are also believed to have been made up.

Der Spiegel yesterday issued an unprecedented mea culpa, printing a plain cover in its trademark orange, with the words: “Tell it like it is. On our own account: how one of our reporters falsified his stories and why he was able to do so.” Inside, over 23 pages, it details the drama surrounding the Relotius revelations, and praises his colleague Juan Moreno, who uncovered the scandal.

“This house is shocked,” it wrote in a leading article. “What’s happened to us is the worst thing that can happen to an editorial team.” It accused Relotius of “relying not on research but on his imagination”. In a 10-page essay entitled “A Nightmare”, the magazine offers an in-depth exposé of how the scandal came to light and the methods he used to cover up his tactics. Moreno, the journalist who revealed the scandal, is also given space to explain how he had come to the shocking conclusion that his colleague was fabricating material. Moreno started his own research against the will of Der Spiegel’s editors, and was almost fired over his repeated accusations, which his bosses at first did not want to believe.
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The German media world is still reeling as a result of the exposure, which has been compared to the fraudulent Hitler diaries that were published by Stern magazine in the 1980s.Die Welt is one of several publications which published Relotius’s work before he became a Spiegel staffer, and is now examining the veracity of those articles. Christian Meier, its media editor, described as being reliant on “a group of reporters with a strong power base that have remodelled the magazine into a penmen’s journal, under which strong research has suffered”.

He added that questions were now being asked as to whether “the form of condensed, extremely dramaturgical edited reportage journalism that the Spiegel as well as other media practice is still sustainable”.

The scandal has sparked fears that the far right will exploit the scandal to sow further distrust of the media. The German far right has a long history of attacking the press.

In recent years, the anti-immigration group Pegida and elements of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) have resurrected the Nazi-era slur of Lügenpresse (“lying press”) to describe mainstream journalism they claim does not represent the world as they see it. These voices have been further emboldened by US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media and his use of the term “fake news.”

“Relotius is in the end only a product of an absurdly leftist writers’ fraternity that is increasingly seldom prepared to leave its own convenient moral comfort zone in favour of the facts,” wrote Alice Weidl, a leader of the AfD, in a Facebook post.

The leading German journalist Hendrik Wieduwilt wrote: “It’s started! The fraud of ‘reporter’ Relotius has now been made into ‘fake news’, or strategically fraudulent lies. The AfD will exploit this for all it is worth. That’s probably the biggest damage of the whole scandal.” The independent media journalist Stefan Niggemeier took to Twitter to express fears the case represented a “deep blow – not just for Der Spiegel, but for German journalism.” In a series of soul-searching written apologies, the magazine acknowledged the wider undermining affect Relotius’s actions will have on those striving to deliver objective, informative and well-sourced reporting.

“We are aware that the Relotius case makes the fight against fake news that much more difficult,” wrote the incoming Spiegel editor-in-chief Steffen Klusmann and deputy editor-in-chief Dirk Kurbjuweit in a joint open letter to readers. “For everyone. For other media outlets that are on our side and for citizens and politicians who are interested in an accurate portrayal of reality.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/world/europe/der-spiegel-claas-relotius.html
Der Spiegel Fires Award-Winning Writer, Citing Fabrication on ‘Grand Scale’
Der Spiegel said one of its journalists invented quotations and characters in several major articles.CreditCarsten Koall/EPA, via Shutterstock
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Der Spiegel said one of its journalists invented quotations and characters in several major articles.CreditCreditCarsten Koall/EPA, via Shutterstock

By Alan Yuhas

Dec. 19, 2018

The German magazine Der Spiegel said on Wednesday that it had fired an award-winning journalist for fabricating “on a grand scale” in his articles, weaving invented quotations and characters into over a dozen major articles.

The reporter and editor, Claas Relotius, confessed to creating the falsehoods after an investigation by the magazine, Der Spiegel said in a statement. The magazine is one of Europe’s leading news publications.

The articles with false or manipulated material include several that were nominated for journalism prizes, or won them, including articles about Iraqi children kidnapped by the Islamic State, a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, and Syrian orphans forced to work in a Turkish sweat shop.

“Claas Relotius committed his deception intentionally, methodically,” Der Spiegel said, inserting into his articles made-up dialogue, people he had never met and “composite characters of people who actually did exist but whose stories Relotius had fabricated.”

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Mr. Relotius, 33, had been writing for the magazine since 2011, and he admitted to making up parts of at least 14 articles in Der Spiegel, the magazine said. That figure could rise, it added. Mr. Relotius wrote almost 60 articles for Der Spiegel, and as a freelancer wrote for a variety of German-language newspapers and magazines.

He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In one article, about Fergus Falls, Minn., Mr. Relotius told of a coal plant employee named Neil Becker (who does not exist), related an anecdote about a restaurant employee (to whom he gave a fictional illness and a misnamed son) and described the view of a power plant from a cafe (whose few windows provide no such view), according to Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn, two residents of the town who, baffled by the claims, spent a year researching them.

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“It was such a weird story, it was so completely different than the town and the people that we knew,” Mr. Krohn said in an interview. “We thought we were at first completely missing something.”

Mr. Krohn and Ms. Anderson initially tried to contact Der Spiegel on Twitter, they said, but eventually decided to investigate the article’s claims on their own. Mr. Krohn, a technology consultant, and Ms. Anderson, who works in a community arts program, published their work on Medium after learning Mr. Relotius had been fired.

In one instance, Ms. Anderson said, Mr. Relotius falsely attached the words “Home of Damn Good Folks” to a sign that merely says “Welcome to Fergus Falls.”
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“I just couldn’t believe he would be that lazy and just assume that we wouldn’t come across that and find that,” she said. “Why do that?”

More serious, she said, were cases in which Mr. Relotius seemed to have invented quotations for real people, “and then put the story out in the world and not care how it affects them.”

In its statement, the magazine said that concerns were first brought to its editors in November by another journalist, Juan Moreno, who reported with Mr. Relotius on an article about a vigilante group operating at the United States border with Mexico.

Der Spiegel has added notes to Mr. Relotius’s articles, saying they will remain unchanged until an investigation is completed.

The case has recalled other cases of fabrication in journalism, including those by Stephen Glass, a magazine writer whose inventions were found out in 1998; Jayson Blair, a New York Times reporter who resigned in 2003 after editors discovered “frequent acts of journalistic fraud”; and Janet Cooke, a Washington Post reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for an article the paper later determined to be untrue.
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