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Receive FREE updates by email: | Before Jayson Blair: AIM and The New York Times By William AlfordNovember 12, 2003 Subsequent to the fallout over Jayson Blair's numerous instances of fraud, inaccuracy and plagiarism, senior staff at The N.Y. Times surely hoped that credibility doubts would end by throwing the 27-year-old journalist over the side in May. Questions nonetheless persisted over such practices as the widespread misuse of unnamed sources, attributing freelancers' work to staff reporters, and insufficient research and 'advocacy' journalism. On an early June "day that breaks my heart," publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. announced the 'resignations' of...

Future Vision: Future Cities sponsored by the Transport Research Group and LSE Cities Programme A one-day conference to be held at the London School of Economics, Old Building, Houghton Street, London WC2 Saturday, December 6th 2003 Tickets: £12 and £8 Speakers include: Laurie Taylor (broadcaster); Miranda Sawyer (BBC Late Review and author 'Park & Ride'); Jonathan Glancey (architecture critic, The Guardian); Dr Henry MacCracken (Paris Observatory); Dea Birkett (author and travel writer); Sean Topham (author 'Where's My Space Age'); David Satterthwaite (UN Human Settlements Programme); Penny Lewis (Prospect magazine); Phil Mullan (author 'The Imaginary Timebomb); Daniel Ben-Ami (author 'Cowardly Capitalism);...