A screenshot of the webpage that Glass had created to try to prove his claim that Jukt Micronics existed.

Stephen Glass (born 1972) was an American reporter for The New Republic who was fired for basing his articles on fake quotes, sources and events. The story of Glass's downfall is told in the 2003 film Shattered Glass. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (600x640, 166 KB) Taken from: http://www. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (600x640, 166 KB) Taken from: http://www. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Female Reporter A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. ... For other uses, see New Republic. ... Shattered Glass is a 2003 film about the fast rise and steep fall of Stephen Glasss journalistic career at the The New Republic magazine during the mid-1990s when his serial journalistic fraud was exposed. ...

Early years

Glass went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he was editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian, the university's student newspaper. There his rise to Executive Editor was greatly facilitated by a series of exposés he wrote about the United Way of America and a "new journalism" piece he wrote about spending a night with homeless crack addicts near Penn's campus. He later obtained a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... The Daily Pennsylvanian is the independent daily student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania. ... Front page view of student newspaper The Daily Toreador. ... The United Way of America is a coalition of charitable organizations in the United States that have traditionally pooled efforts in fundraising. ... The schools original sign, preserved on the north quad of the present-day campus. ...

Following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, he rose quickly to national prominence in the competitive world of political journalism, writing articles for The New Republic when he was only 23 years old.

New Republic scandal

Glass was fired from TNR in May 1998, after it was discovered that he had committed numerous cases of journalistic fraud. The story that triggered these events appeared in the May 18, 1998 issue. It was called "Hack Heaven", and concerned a supposed 15-year-old computer hacker, who was purportedly hired to work for a large company as an information security consultant after breaking into their computer system and exposing its weaknesses. Like several of Stephen Glass's previous stories, "Hack Heaven" depicted events that were almost cinematic in their vividness and that were told from a first-person perspective implying Glass was there as the action took place. The article opened as follows: Journalistic Fraud book cover Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted is a book by Bob Kohn with a thesis similar to that of Bernard Goldbergs Bias. ... is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Hacker, as it relates to computers, has several common meanings. ...

Ian Restil, a 15-year-old computer hacker who looks like an even more adolescent version of Bill Gates, is throwing a tantrum. "I want more money. I want a Miata. I want a trip to Disney World. I want X-Man comic [book] number one. I want a lifetime subscription to Playboy, and throw in Penthouse. Show me the money! Show me the money!"...

Across the table, executives from a California software firm called Jukt Micronics are listening – and trying ever so delicately to oblige. "Excuse me, sir," one of the suits says, tentatively, to the pimply teenager. "Excuse me. Pardon me for interrupting you, sir. We can arrange more money for you ..."

Soon after the publication of "Hack Heaven," Forbes.com reporter Adam Penenberg presented evidence to The New Republic that the story was fabricated and that the company depicted in it did not exist. An internal review by TNR confirmed this, and found that Glass had created a shell website and voice mail account for the company in order to deceive TNR's fact checkers. Some commentators of the scandal considered it to be a great coming-of-age achievement for online journalism.[1] For other persons named Bill Gates, see Bill Gates (disambiguation). ... The Mazda MX-5 is a popular sports car built by Mazda in Hiroshima, Japan. ... Cinderella Castle is the symbol of Magic Kingdom. ... The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ... Playboy is an American mens magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. ... Jesse Capelli on Penthouse magazine cover Penthouse is a mens magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combining urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornographic pictorials, that eventually, in the 1990s evolved into hard-core. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Adam L. Penenberg is an investigative journalist best known for uncovering the journalistic fraud of The New Republic reporter Stephen Glass in 1998. ... Voicemail (or voice mail; abbreviated v-mail or vmail) is a specific application of an interactive voice response system. ... A fact checker is a person whose job consists of checking factual assertions made in news copy to determine whether they are correct. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

TNR subsequently determined that at least 27 of 41 stories written by Glass for the magazine contained fabricated material. Of the remaining fourteen, former TNR executive editor Charles Lane said, "In fact, I'd bet lots of the stuff in those other fourteen is fake, too. ... It's not like we're vouching for those fourteen, that they're true. They're probably not, either."^[1] Three other magazines, Rolling Stone, George and Harper's, to which Glass contributed also reviewed his work. Rolling Stone and Harper's found the material generally accurate but had no way of verifying information from Glass' anonymous sources. George discovered Glass fabricated quotes in a profile piece and apologized to the article's subject, Vernon Jordan, a Clinton advisor. Charles Chuck Lane is a journalist who is currently a staff writer for the Washington Post. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Cover of inaugural issue of George George was a glossy politics-as-lifestyle monthly magazine co- founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr. ... An issue of Harpers Magazine from 1905 Another issue, from November 2004 Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts from a progressive, moderate left perspective in a fashion often not found in the ordinary news... ...

Shattered Glass

A movie presenting a stylized view of Glass's rise and fall, titled Shattered Glass, was released in 2003. The screenplay aimed to portray both the high-pressure world of national political journalism and the inside workings of a national political magazine. The well-received movie stars Hayden Christensen as Glass. Shattered Glass is a 2003 film about the fast rise and steep fall of Stephen Glasss journalistic career at the The New Republic magazine during the mid-1990s when his serial journalistic fraud was exposed. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 2003 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Recent career

Stephen Glass completed his law degree at Georgetown University Law Center after being fired by TNR, and passed the written portion of the New York state bar exam, but has not yet been admitted to the bar. In 2003, he began appearing on television to promote his "biographical novel" The Fabulist. "I wanted them to think I was a good journalist, a good person. I wanted them to love the story so they would love me", he told Steve Kroft of CBS News' 60 Minutes in an interview, which was included as a special feature for the DVD edition of Shattered Glass. Also in 2003, Glass briefly returned to journalism, writing an article about Canadian marijuana laws for Rolling Stone.^[2] Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 2003 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Steve Kroft is an American journalist. ... CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports. ... Not to be confused with a BBC news magazine program of the same name. ... Shattered Glass is a 2003 film about the fast rise and steep fall of Stephen Glasss journalistic career at the The New Republic magazine during the mid-1990s when his serial journalistic fraud was exposed. ...

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See Also

Jayson Blair Jayson Blair (born March 23, 1976, Columbia, Maryland) is an African American and former New York Times reporter who was forced to resign from the newspaper in May 2003, after he was caught plagiarizing and fabricating elements of his stories. ...

Janet Cooke Janet Cooke (born 1958) was an American journalist who became infamous when she won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story that she wrote for The Washington Post. ...

Dan Rather Daniel Irvin Rather, Jr. ...

Rathergate The Killian documents (often referred to as the CBS documents during the 2004 US presidential campaign) were memos purportedly written by the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian. ...

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Further reading

• Glass, Stephen. The Fabulist (2003). ISBN 0-7432-2712-3
• Bissinger, Buzz. "Through a Glass Darkly." Vanity Fair (1998).
• Very few of the articles that Glass wrote for The New Republic are still available online. Below are links to some of those articles which Glass is suspected of fabricating in part or in whole:

1. “Mrs. Colehill Thanks God For Private Social Security”, June 1997, for Policy Review magazine. PDF format.
2. “Probable Claus”, published January 6 & 13, 1997
3. “Don't You D.A.R.E.”, published March 3, 1997
4. “Writing on the Wall”, published March 24, 1997
5. “The Young and the Feckless”, published Sept. 15, 1997
6. “Washington Scene: Hack Heaven”, published May 18, 1998

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External links

• The New Republic statement on the Glass scandal, June 1998 (Archive.org copy).
• Stephen Glass archive at forbes.com (includes Adam Penenberg's 11 May 1998 article, "Lies, damn lies and fiction")
• Salon.com: Hacker heaven, editors' hell
• Stephen Glass: I Lied For Esteem - Interview on CBS News' 60 Minutes
• "Remembrance of Things Passed: How my friend Stephen Glass got away with it, by Jonathan Chait
• "Disgraced Author Seeks Faith" and "Journalistic Fake-Out Before Blair" at The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles
• 1999 Glass letter admitting fabrications in TNR article "Don't You D.A.R.E."
• NPR audio interview with Charles Lane about Glass
• "Through a Glass Darkly", The Pennsylvania Gazette
• A Tissue of Lies: The Stephen R. Glass Index - Index of the articles Glass wrote for The New Republic and other magazines, including publication dates, with the ones Glass is known to have fabricated marked. Glass article links are to the TNR website and no longer work.