A major German newsmagazine has fired an award-winning journalist after he admitted to fabricating sources in at least a dozen articles since 2011. Der Spiegel said on Wednesday that reporter and editor Claas Relotius “falsified his articles on a grand scale and even invented characters, deceiving both readers and his colleagues.”“This has been uncovered as a result of tips, internal research and, ultimately, a comprehensive confession by the editor himself,” Der Spiegel said in a statement on its website. Relotius has been honored with several prestigious awards in recent years, including CNN’s Journalist of the Year in 2014 and the European Press Prize in 2017. He appeared on Forbes’ list of “30 Under 30” for European media last year.

Source: Huffington Post December 20, 2018 14:22 UTC