| Sumario: | The article examines several stories made by Jack Kelley, a former USA Today reporter, and the allegations made by USA Today against him. As the most prominent foreign correspondent for USA Today, Kelley filed hundreds of stories from all over the globe. Some of his stories include one detailing how he trekked for two-and-a-half days through the snowy mountains of Yugoslavia with a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters. In August 2001, Kelley also reported walking by a Sbarro pizza shop in Jerusalem at lunchtime with an Israeli official just as suicide bomber blows it up. According to Kelley, there were two things that he has tried to do in journalism. One was to report stories that no one else could report and to develop contacts that no one else thought to develop. Some people who know Kelley describe him as fresh-faced kid, eager, naíve and enthusiastic, willing to do anything to make his mark at USA Today. Others described him as a swashbuckling foreign correspondent with an almost cinematic blend of fearlessness and sensitivity. In July 1982, Kelley was hired as a news assistant at startup USA Today, just after graduating from the University of Maryland. In 1986, he became a reporter.
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