Stephen Glass Tells Journalism Students He Has Paid Back $200,000

"What I did was wrong on so many levels," the former journalist said to a Duke audience today.

Former The New Republic star Stephen Glass visited Duke University today. During his talk, he dropped an astounding number:

In his conversation with students in News as a Moral Battleground, a class on journalism ethics taught by Bill Adair, Knight professor of the practice of journalism and public policy, Glass said he made the payments based on what the organizations [TNR, Rolling Stone, Policy Review] had paid him, plus interest.

“I should have done it earlier,” Glass said of the repayments.

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