Gerald Boyd, former managing editor of The New York Time, dies

KLTV ^ | November 23, 2006

[lunarbicep]

A former managing editor of The New York Times who was forced to resign amid the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal has died.

Gerald Boyd was 56.

His wife says Boyd was diagnosed with lung cancer in February and has been sick for most of the year.

Boyd and executive editor Howell Raines were brought down by the scandal caused by the journalist they had groomed, and by criticism of their management style. Boyd resigned in 2003.

Boyd was the first black journalist to work the many jobs he'd held at The Times, including metropolitan editor and managing editor. And at 28, he was also the youngest journalist chosen for a prestigious Nieman fellowship at Harvard.

[lesser_satan]

...the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal...

The "scandal" involved a hell of a lot more than plagiarism. He was making sh!t up out of whole cloth and lying through his teeth.

[rlmorel]

I will extend sympathy to his family and leave it at that.

[skr]

I'm sorry for the family and loved ones. A short life and a difficult death.

Indeed, fraud and outright lying is what I think of when Jayson Blair's name comes up.

[Free Vulcan]

Ditto that sentiment.

[advertising guy]

ditto that and that is all too

[LdSentinal]

Sorry that he died. I'm even more sorry the New York Times hasn't died yet.

[Lancey Howard]

Sorry that he died. I'm even more sorry the New York Times hasn't died yet.

Very well said.

[geezerwheezer]

It is sad this man died. My sympathies to his family and friends. It is a shame he was so tainted by the Blair scandal, but he wasn't the only person at the Times that was responsible for Blair's rotten deeds, in fact it goes all the way to the top of that morally corrupt newspaper to include Pinch and his family. Shame on them all.

[Gaffer]

I won't even do that.

[ConservativeMind]

Was he able to get one last liberal lie out before he passed on?

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP. Prayers for the family.