Janet Cooke

Janet Cooke

In 1981, Janet Cooke, a reporter for the Washington Post, won a Pulitzer Prize after she published a story named "Jimmy's World," which was about an 8-year-old heroin addict. It was later found out that she fabricated the whole story and had to give back her Pulitzer Prize.

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