Washington Post
Boston Globe freelancer
Barbara Stewart's partially fabricated story "is embarrassing and a serious problem because the Globe should not have taken as gospel the account of a freelancer who wasn't even at the scene," says Boston University journalism department chairman
Bob Zelnick. But media critic
Dan Kennedy says the incident "is probably not that big a deal. It was an unknown freelancer writing a fairly small story inside the paper, and they took care of it immediately."
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Stewart had worked for a decade at the New York Times (Boston Herald)
