Has anyone ever been disowned faster than Juan Thompson? A former reporter for the website The Intercept, he allegedly “fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name.”
Until hours ago, stories by Thompson for the Intercept were topped by an intro that called him a “former reporter with a focus on crime, punishment, the police state, and race. Prior to joining the Intercept, he worked as a production assistant and reporter at Chicago’s NPR member station WBEZ and as a reporter for DNAinfo Chicago.”
Can’t say we didn’t see this coming… https://t.co/o8mOpEzhpO
— Jen Sabella (@jensabella) February 2, 2016
Meanwhile, Gawker was trying to keep track of the various versions of Thompson’s side of the story. First to show up was an undated letter that Gawker said Thompson apparently wrote to Reed. It said he’d been enervated and distracted by testicular cancer, and furthermore was merely a “cub reporter” and required supervision he didn’t get—”something with which The Intercept continues to struggle as everyone in this business knows.”
