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Join Woundry Plus in the Woundry App or Apple Podcasts. Okay, Sarah, I know you've never plagiarized or lied in your reporting, but have you ever

been maybe a little sloppy with the details.

Like, have you ever gotten a correction despite your best efforts?

Yeah, I mean, I think perhaps like I've used like maybe dated information

without knowing it, but it's like absolutely the most

scary and mortifying thing in the world. Yeah I remember every single correction I have ever

gotten they have all sunken into my skin and they have filled me with rage against myself which I think

is a super normal response.

I think so too I mean it's your job like if you're not credible then you're screwed forever.

Well, I have a story that I know

is going to make you feel that sick, sour turn

in your stomach that can only come from one source

and one source only, finding out that you got something wrong in a piece that you've already

published.

It's the spring of 1998 when Hannah Rosen gets a phone call.

Hannah is 28 years old with short curly brown hair and thin eyebrows.

She's a journalist for a politics magazine called The New Republic

and she thinks the call could be from a source but instead the

panicked voice on the other end of the line belongs to her friend and her

colleague Stephen Glass. Oh my god you, obviously I know who he is because anyone in media knows the Stephen Glass

story and I just got to say I am so happy we are doing this and I cannot wait to learn things I did not

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