Jack Kelley

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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, an organization dedicated to creating "Christian worldview journalists" who "accompany reporting with [...] a perspective committed to the final authority of the Bible as the inerrant written word of God". [link]

He is perhaps best known for his fall from grace 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 scandal of Kelley, a devout Christian, led some commentators to speculate that some of Kelley's fabrications may have been religiously motivated.

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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