Janet Cooke

Janet Cooke

Janet Leslie Cooke (born July 23, 1954, in Toledo, Ohio) is an American former journalist who became infamous when it was discovered that a Pulitzer Prize-winning story that she had written for The Washington Post had been fabricated.

Read more about Janet Cooke:  Early Career, "Jimmy's World", Fallout, Post-journalism

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