{"id":26272,"date":"2018-12-20T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26272"},"modified":"2018-12-20T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:23:01","slug":"der-spiegel-says-star-reporter-wrote-fake-stories-on-a-grand-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26272","title":{"rendered":"Der Spiegel says star reporter wrote fake stories &#8216;on a grand scale&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>A top European news magazine has fired one of its star journalists after discovering that he had fabricated facts and sources in more than a dozen articles over a seven-year period. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Claas Relotius, a reporter and editor, falsified his articles on a grand scale and even invented characters, deceiving both readers and his colleagues,&#8221; Germany&#8217;s Der Spiegel said in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/the-relotius-case-answers-to-the-most-important-questions-a-1244653.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> published online Wednesday. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The startling revelation is a heavy blow to Der Spiegel, a 71-year-old publication that&#8217;s renowned for its quality journalism and read by hundreds of thousands of people in print and by millions online.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)A top European news magazine has fired one of its star journalists after discovering that he had fabricated facts and sources in more than a dozen articles over a seven-year period. &#8220;Claas Relotius, a reporter and editor, falsified his articles on a grand scale and even invented characters, deceiving both readers and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}