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AP issues correction for stories citing Manti Te’o's fake girlfriend

Craig Silverman — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:34:59 +0000

The Associated Press issued a correction late last week to address reporting that cited Manti Te’o's fake girlfriend as real. As reported in Mike Allen’s Playbook at Politico, here’s the correction:

In a Sept. 15, 2012, story about Notre
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Face of Manti Te’o hoax announces plans to be less visible

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:40:50 +0000

The Los Angeles Times | Daily Download
Diane O’Meara has closed her social media accounts, she writes in the Los Angeles Times. A hoaxter told former Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o that O’Meara’s face was Lennay Kekua, a … Read more

Katie Couric on Te’o interview: ‘I think he was really telling the truth’

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:12:20 +0000

CBS New York | BuzzFeed
“What am I going to do, strap a lie detector on this guy?” Katie Couric said to WFAN hosts Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton Friday, while recapping her exclusive interview with former Notre … Read more

In Te’o interview, Couric shows value of follow-up questions

Andrew Beaujon — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:09:57 +0000

“Good Morning America” | Yahoo | Poynter | Deadspin
Did Manti Te’o make a good damage-control decision when he decided to give his first big post-non-dead-girlfriend interview to Katie Couric? Far from it.

Christina Ng writes that Couric (who … Read more

Sports Illustrated beats NYT on story of how Deadspin beat ESPN on Te’o story

Andrew Beaujon — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:50:01 +0000

The New York Times | Sports Illustrated
The New York Times’ account of how ESPN frittered away a tip about Manti Te’o's imaginary girlfriend has everything you’d want from a story-behind-the-story. It sports a marvelous headline (“As ESPN Debated, Manti … Read more

Did Deadspin beat ESPN to the Te’o story because it didn’t care about preserving ‘access’?

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:20:42 +0000

Sports Illustrated | Journo2Go
It was a story of two tips.

The first, as Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch reports, came to ESPN late on Jan. 10. The second came to Deadspin on Jan. 11. Both were similar: Something … Read more

5 reporting tips from the college student who helped break Deadspin’s Manti Te’o story

Daniel Reimold — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:51:47 +0000

An anonymous email forwarded to the Deadspin staff more than a week ago claimed the deceased girlfriend of Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o never actually existed.

Deadspin editorial fellow Jack Dickey was immediately intrigued. During an online chat, … Read more

Why didn’t the media find out about Manti Te’o hoax sooner?

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:16:09 +0000

Of all the questions arising from Deadspin’s Manti Te’o story, maybe the biggest is: Why didn’t other journalists uncover the hoax sooner? The story broke Wednesday night, and news geeks are still trying to put the pieces back together.

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Deadspin’s editor-in-chief explains editing, reporting behind Manti Te’o story

Mallary Jean Tenore — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:22:50 +0000

Deadspin Editor-in-Chief Tommy Craggs says Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey were faced with a tough question when reporting their now famous Manti Te’o story: “What lengths do we go to to try and prove a negative?”

: Tommy Craggs

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Reactions to Deadspin’s Manti Te’o story

Andrew Beaujon — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:15:39 +0000

• The original bizarre story of the football player’s nonexistent dead girlfriend on Deadspin by Jack Dickey and Timothy Burke.

• “I can tell you we’re as baffled as anybody,” said a South Bend Tribune staffer when Poynter … Read more