A newspaper writer in Georgia has been fired after writing about the school’s football program’s handling of sexual abuse allegations.
Alan Judd, who wrote the piece, was reportedly fired after the university demanded that the piece gets taken down.
The piece ended up not being taken down but Judd was still fired for violating the standards of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
NEWS: The AJC has issued an official apology to the University of Georgia.
The author of the article in question was fired for violating the organization’s journalistic standards.
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“Our editorial integrity and the trust our community has in us is at the core of who we are,” Editor-in-Chief Leroy Chapman said, via On3.
“After receiving the university’s letter, we assigned our team of editors and lawyers to carefully review each claim in the nine-page document we received, along with some additional source material that supported the original story. We identified errors that fell short of our standards, and we corrected them.”
There were also cases when athletes were named in the story and they were confirmed as accurate.
Stay tuned for more information on this developing story.