I didn’t see myself as being ambitious, says ex-USATer Kelley

American Journalism Review
“I saw myself as being in love with the profession,” says former USA Today foreign correspondent Jack Kelley (left). “I’m a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.” Kelley, who was forced to resign after lying to editors during an investigation of his work, tells Jill Rosen: “I’ve always sat back and said I’ve tried to do two things in journalism. One is report stories that no one else could report and develop contacts that no one else thought to develop. I worked around the clock to do that. It’s those two things that caused suspicion among those who don’t know me.”