By: Nawal Sayed
CAIRO, Dec. 20 (SEE) - CNN International decided to strip a German journalist of two awards that he received from the broadcaster in 2014 after finding out that the journalist fabricated numerous articles.
In a statement issued Thursday, the CNN announced that the independent panel of judges who awarded Claas Relotius the Journalist of the Year and Print Journalist of the Year awards four years ago decided unanimously to remove the awards following revelations about his fraud.
German magazine Der Spiegel, where Relotius worked as a freelancer and later full-time, said Wednesday that he had fabricated interviews and facts in more than a dozen articles over the years.
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