She invented sources and quotes: a journalist from the national American daily
USA Today
resigned and the newspaper withdrew from its site about twenty articles expressing its “regrets” on Thursday June 16 and reaffirming its editorial and ethical principles.
It was after receiving a request to correct an article that
USA Today
launched an
"audit on the work of reporter Gabriela Miranda"
, one of its journalists, according to a press release published on its site.
This internal investigation
“revealed that certain individuals cited were not linked to the organizations invoked and seemed invented”
, denounced the press organ.
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USA Today also realized that
"quotes by other people could not be independently verified and that some articles contained quotes that should have been attributed to others"
.
As a result, the newspaper removed 23 articles from its site and other platforms because they
“do not meet our editorial criteria”
.
USA Today
assured
"to do
(its)
best to be precise and factual in all
(its)
content"
and said
"to regret this situation"
.
“We will continue to strengthen our reporting and editing principles and processes”
information, committed the newspaper by publishing some basic journalistic rules such as the verification of sources and facts.
The titles of the offending papers also appear on the site and the journalist
"resigned from her post as a reporter"
for the newspaper and the
USA Today
network , owned by the Gannett group, the number one local press in the United States.
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Gannett had been acquired in November 2019 for around $1.2 billion by another American media group, New Media Investment Group, to form a juggernaut of more than 250 different publications.
Once flourishing and extremely diverse, the regional and local daily press in the United States has suffered terribly from successive crises, in particular the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the 2010s, cases of plagiarism and phony also splashed newspapers as prestigious as the
Washington Post
and the
New York Times
and resulted in the departure of the offending journalists.