According to New Times:
Nazish Ahmad seemed a journalism w�nderkind. Two years ago, at the tender age of 16, the pretty, smart, South Plantation High School student wrote a front-page story for the Miami Herald. She won coveted internships at South Florida’s two largest newspapers, the Herald and the Sun-Sentinel. And she recently took top scholastic honors, both nationally and in Florida, for her columns.
Then came the capper: On May 3, she was awarded a Silver Knight in journalism by the Herald, the top honors for a school-age reporter in Broward County. Every high school in the county submits an entry. Hers was best — so she took home a plane ticket to anywhere in the United States or Central America as well as $1,500.
Last month, the whole thing came crashing down. It turned out that Ahmad, whom I couldn’t reach despite repeated attempts, had forged a recommendation letter to win the Silver Knight and that she had plagiarized at least one daily newspaper story and improperly lifted material from four others.
See the full story here.