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Jack Kelley was a longtime USA Today correspondent and nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and a faculty member of the World Journalism Institute, whose mission is to "recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists who are Christians in the mainstream newsrooms of America." [1]

Mr. Kelley is perhaps best known for his professional downfall in March 2004, when it came out that he had long been fabricating stories, going so far as to write up scripts so associates could pretend to be sources.

The newspaper did an extensive review of Kelley's stories, including sending investigators, including Mark Memmott (an editor at USA Today) to Cuba, Israel, and Jordan, and sifting through stacks of hotel records to determine if Kelley was in the locations he claimed to be filing stories from. Kelley resigned, but denied the charges. The USA Today publisher, Craig Moon, issued a public apology on the front page of the newspaper.

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