LONDON—An award-winning journalist has been fired from a German news magazine for fabricating stories over several years, including making up characters, quotes, and dialogue “on a grand scale.”
Der Spiegel on Dec. 19 was forced to write an expose on its own journalist and editor, Claas Relotius. The weekly publication admitted he had committed deception “intentionally, methodically, and with criminal intent,” affecting at least 14 of his 60 articles.
