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  • Jayson Revolt: 43rd St. Petition by Times Tyros (group wants end to newsroom favoritism)

    05/28/2003 2:59:41 AM PDT · by Liz · 9 replies · 123+ views
    The New York Observer. ^ | 6/2/2003 edition | Sridhar Pappu
    Meet the youth brigade of The New York Times. As Al Siegal and his investigative committee continue to hash out exactly how the 152-year-old institution allowed 27-year-old reporter Jayson Blair to invent datelines and events and imaginary vistas, 13 of the newspaper’s bright young things have been hammering away at a memo to Mr. Siegal and other members of the committee calling for changes in how the paper treats its young. Among the early drafts of the memo being circulated, the group calls upon Times management to end favoritism in the newsroom, develop transparent procedures for filling open positions, and...
  • Jayson Blair Talks: ‘So Jayson Blair Could Live, The Journalist Had to Die’

    05/21/2003 10:27:32 AM PDT · by areafiftyone · 25 replies · 355+ views
    New York Observer ^ | 5/21/02 | Sridhar Pappu
    "That was my favorite," Jayson Blair said. It was the morning of Monday, May 19, and the disgraced former New York Times reporter was curled in a butterfly chair in his sparsely furnished Brooklyn apartment. He was eating a bagel and talking about one of his many fabricated stories—his March 27 account, datelined Palestine, W.Va., of Pvt. Jessica Lynch’s family’s reaction to their daughter’s liberation in Iraq.Mr. Blair hadn’t gone to Palestine, W.Va. He’d filed from Brooklyn, N.Y. As he’d done before, he cobbled facts and details from other places and made some parts up. He wrote how Private Lynch’s...