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The author with her now-notorious boyfriend My Turn: I’m Only Guilty of Being a Good Friend The Jayson I know is a kind and gifted man—but our relationship cost me my job and my credibility By Zuza GlowackaNEWSWEEK June 2 issue —  I understand what Elizabeth Bishop meant when, in her poem “One Art,” she wrote, “The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” In the weeks since I’ve had to resign from my job because a close friend of mine, Jayson Blair, was caught plagiarizing and fabricating, I’ve lost my privacy, my credibility and many of my longtime...

The gal pal of New York Times plagiarist Jayson Blair says she disagrees with the "offensive statements he's been making" - and only recently figured out that the scandal has ruined her credibility. "When Jayson was caught, it came as a big shock and betrayal to the world as well as to me," Zuza Glowacka writes in the current issue of Newsweek. Glowacka, 23, resigned from her job as a Times news clerk after Blair was caught plagiarizing and fabricating stories. He was forced to resign from the paper, which has been thrown into turmoil by the scandal. Since her...

<p>May 17, 2003 -- The gal pal of disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair said she had no role in helping him in his deception.</p> <p>"I was in no way aware nor did I assist Jayson in anything that contributed to his current problems," said Zuza Glowacka, a 23-year-old clerk who was a temp for The Times.</p>

<p>May 14, 2003 -- A New York Times clerk who is a gal pal of disgraced ex-reporter Jayson Blair has left the paper amid questions about her possible role in his journalistic misdeeds.</p> <p>Zuza Glowacka "is currently not working at the Times," said newspaper spokeswoman Catherine Mathis, who described her as a temp.</p>