Inside the Newspaper that Broke the Brian Williams News

By: David Uberti | CJR

The scandal erupting around NBC anchor Brian Williams began with a screenshot. On Tuesday afternoon, Stars and Stripes Editor Terry Leonard was emailed an image of a Facebook thread in which users disputed Williams’ long-told story of experiencing an RPG attack in the Iraq war. One of the commenters had the same name of a source in the newspaper’s coverage of the 2003 incident, and Leonard quickly dispatched a reporter to track down him and others who’d been at the scene.