Mercury News: intern's unverifiable sources `serious breach' of ethics.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: December 5, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

SAN JOSE, Calif._Five of 19 articles written or co-written by a journalism student who worked as an intern this year for the Mercury News contain people and quotes that an internal review by the newspaper has been unable to verify as real.

The audit began Friday after it was revealed that Eric R. Drudis, a student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, produced two articles for his college wire service in which sources and events could not be verified. Those articles were published in at least three small regional newspapers, at least two of which later ...

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