Janet Cooke is infamous for her fabricated story, titled “Jimmy’s World”, which she wrote and then published, claiming it was a true story.
Janet Cooke was a journalist for the Washington Post, back in the 1980’s. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981, but was stripped of her title later that year when she announced that her famous article, “Jimmy’s World” was made up. “Jimmy’s World” was about an eight year old heroin addict. Cooke originally said she had interviewed the boy, his mother, and the mother’s boyfriend, but later acknowledged that she had never met any of the people in the story, and that she had made up the story based off of some information she had about heroin addiction in Washington, D.C.
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