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One of the last stories Jayson Blair wrote before being unmasked as a liar and plagiarist contained these words: "Juanita Anguiano points proudly to the pinstriped couches, the tennis bracelet in its red case and the Martha Stewart furniture out on the patio. She proudly points up to the ceiling fan." Eight days earlier, I had written similar words about Anguiano in an article for my newspaper: "So the single mother, a teacher's aide, points to the ceiling fan he installed in her small living room. She points to the pinstriped couches, the tennis bracelet still in its red velvet...

<p>He Stole a Lot More Than My Words By Macarena Hernandez, Macarena Hernandez is a reporter for the San Antonio Express-News. SAN ANTONIO — One of the last stories Jayson Blair wrote before being unmasked as a liar and plagiarist contained these words: "Juanita Anguiano points proudly to the pinstriped couches, the tennis bracelet in its red case and the Martha Stewart furniture out on the patio. She proudly points up to the ceiling fan."</p>

Much has been written about Jayson Blair, the young, talented, African-American journalist who brought shame to the New York Times by fabricating facts and stealing the work of others. But I've seen hardly anything written about Macarena Hernandez, the young, talented, Latina journalist who first brought suspicion of Blair's plagiarism to light. I know her well. I am her mentor. In 1997, the summer before she and Blair were summer interns in a program for minority journalists at the New York Times, she worked as an intern at this newspaper, with me as her guide. Her story needs to be...

New York Times Reporter Resigns By TARA BURGHARTAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP)--A New York Times reporter resigned Thursday after he was accused of appropriating without attribution material from another newspaper's story about a Texas woman whose son was killed in combat in Iraq, the Times said. A Times review of the story by Jayson Blair has ``been unable to determine what original reporting he did to produce it,'' Times Executive Editor Howell Raines said in a statement Thursday night. The review began after San Antonio Express-News Editor Robert Rivard sent an e-mail Tuesday to Times editors asking them to...