Houston Chronicle retracts 100 stories after investigation can't confirm that sources existed

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Houston Chronicle retracts 8 stories, corrects 64 others after reporter's work scrutinized

 

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The Chronicle reported in September that Ward resigned after questions arose about the existence of persons quoted in one of his stories.

David Wood, an independent investigative reporter that the Chronicle retained to investigate Ward's sourcing, said he reviewed 744 stories, from early August 2018 back to January 2014, when Ward was hired after a long career at the Austin American-Statesman.

"A team of three pulled out the names of 275 individuals who were presented as ordinary Texans and made every effort to find them," Wood wrote in his investigative report. "Of the 275 people quoted, 122, or 44 percent, could not be found. Those 122 people appeared in 72 stories...

During Ward's time at the Houston and Austin papers, The Associated Press has distributed to its members more than a dozen stories reported by him for use in their own publications. The AP is trying to determine whether there are any problems with those stories.