Janet Cooke's Legacy

December 31, 2004

When it was revealed that Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Janet Cooke had invented her prize-winning story, calls for systemic reform reverberated throughout the media world. But more than two decades later, has anything changed? Brooke looks at the checks and balances in the newspaper industry, and asks whether anything could have prevented the Jayson Blair debacle.


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