# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janet-cooke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:34:16.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janet-cooke"
name: "Janet Cooke"
slug: "janet-cooke"
description: "Janet Leslie Cooke is an American former journalist. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for an article written for The Washington Post. The story was later discovered to have been fabricated and Cooke returned the prize, the only person to date to do so, after admitting she had fabricated stories. The prize was awarded instead to Teresa Carpenter, a nominee who had lost to Cooke."
tagline: "American journalist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1954-07-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.28
  momentum:             4.369501466275659
  historical:           13.48960933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Janet Cooke"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Cooke"
    title: "Janet Cooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janet Cooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janet Cooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janet Cooke"
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    title: "ジャネット・クック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janet Cooke"
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    title: "Janet Cooke"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump