Steven Helmer
Helmer was a reporter for Bloomsburg. Helmer told others that he had fabricated some of his stories, and the Editor confirmed that their was evidence to support this. Helmer was fired.
Partricia Smith
Patricia Smith was a writer for the Boston globe and since then has written poetry, plays and taught writing. Smith created people and quotes for a story as well as made up large portions of four other columns. Smith resigned from the Boston Globe in 1998.
Martin Renzhofer
Is a journalist for the Salt Lake Tribune. Renzhofer confessed to plagiarizing an article about an HBO documentary, in which he directly copied an 180-word quote from a website. After the unsighted, plagiarized article was reported by a reader advocate, Renzhofer received a demotion.
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