Posted on 06/06/2003 12:13:17 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:03:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The two top editors of the New York Times resigned yesterday, felled by a newsroom scandal that was magnified to crisis and public humiliation by five weeks of relentless coverage in print and broadcast media.
Howell Raines, the executive editor, and Gerald M. Boyd, the managing editor, left the paper before noon. Times officials quickly announced that Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor, had come out of retirement to serve as a single, interim leader.
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