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Janet Cooke wrote a fictitious news article about an 8-year old heroin addict named "Jimmy" for the Washington Post in 1980. Her detailed account of a visit to the boy's home, infested with drugs and other crimes, won her a Pulitzer Prize for that article. However, when it came to light that Cooke had lied in her resume it prompted editors at the Post to question her more instensely over the Jimmy story, which had some Post staffers, both editors and reporters, doubting its facts since it was based mostly on annonymous sources. Cooke confesed to making up the story, was asked to resigne from the paper and the Pulitzer was returned.
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