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(From AP Online)
Byline: Kristina Herrndobler
The Chicago Tribune said Wednesday it fired a freelance writer and former longtime foreign correspondent after he admitted fabricating the name of a source he quoted making disparaging remarks about Aborigines in a recent story from Australia.
The Tribune apologized to its readers for "this breach of trust" in a brief story under its "Corrections and Clarifications" fixture on the second page of Wednesday's editions.
It said Uli Schmetzer, who worked for the paper as a foreign correspondent for 16 years before retiring two years ago and becoming a freelancer, "has been terminated as a contract writer with the newspaper."
Don Wycliff, the Tribune's public editor, said editors are examining Schmetzer's other work for the newspaper, beginning with the past three years.
The Tribune said the article in question was published Feb. 24 and was about rioting that occurred following the death of an Aborigine boy.