The newspaper said editors will now spot-check reporters’ articles more frequently, choosing stories at random and calling sources to verify they exist. It is owned by the Dow Jones Local Media Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation.

The Cape Cod Times, a daily newspaper based in Hyannis, Mass., that claims daily circulation of 43,000, serves Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Mass. “We are confident this situation was isolated to Jeffrey,” Meyer and Pronovost wrote. Watch the most-viewed videos on Įditors also spot-checked other reporters’ work but turned up no questionable sourcing. They also couldn’t locate five other people featured in the story. Editors were unable to find that name via searches of public records and the local assessor’s database, Meyer and Pronovost said. In a 2011 story about a Fourth of July parade in Cotuit, for example, Jeffrey wrote about a man named Johnson Coggins, described as 88 years old, “the patriarch of the family” and a longtime Cotuit summer resident. The stories with suspect sourcing were typically lighter fare – a story on young voters, a story on getting ready for a hurricane, a story on the Red Sox home opener – where some or all of the people quoted cannot be located. We were able to verify sourcing in many stories written by Jeffrey, mostly police and court news, political stories, and recently a series on returning war veterans. A telephone message left Wednesday for a listing under her name was not immediately returned. Jeffrey could not be reached for comment. Jeffrey 'no longer works for the Cape Cod Times,” the newspaper said.

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