A freelance writer and journalism graduate of Columbia University was caught fabricating sources in a recent piece for the Village Voice.* Here's a note from the paper's editor: Freelance writer Rob Sgobbo's article "For-Profit Blues" was removed from the website after the Voice learned that Sgobbo had invented a character, "Tamicka Bourges," who claimed she [...]
Corrections: We earlier wrote that Eliot Brown was leaving for the Wall Street Journal, and that was wrong, he’ll just be a stringer for them. Also, it’s “Rush & Molloy” not “Rush and Molly” though that does have a certain strange ring to it, and the potential of Molly Fischer writing about Neil Peart every [...]
Gawker looked through the new, digitized archives of the Village Voice and turned up a gem of an excerpt. John Cook found what he describes as a "hilarious 1956 farewell column from Norman Mailer after he got fed up with all the typos Voice editors were inserting into his copy…" Here, via Gawker, is an [...]
