Stephen Glass: The Journalist Who Faked Everything

In the mid-1990s Stephen Glass was a rising star at The New Republic, placing sensational stories across top magazines, until much of his work was exposed as fabricated.This episode covers how he fooled fact-checkers with fake notes and voicemails, his unraveling over the story Hack Heaven, and his later failed bid to become a licensed lawyer.Exploiting editors' trust and building elaborate fake evidence trailsThe fabricated hacker story Hack Heaven investigated by ForbesCharles Lane's drive to the Bethesda hotel that exposed the lieAt least 27 of 41 New Republic articles found to contain fabricationsThe 2014 California Supreme Court denial of his law license