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...hundreds of employees in a Times Square movie theater--which made it clear that Raines and Boyd needed to act very fast to fix morale. Among other things, the paper appointed a committee to make management suggestions--and began looking for other Blairs. Then came a second scandal: Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer prizewinning feature writer, was suspended after he filed a story about oystermen in Florida that had been largely reported by an uncredited intern. Bragg further enraged the newsroom when he claimed that Times national reporters did things like that all the time. When Raines issued a mild...
When the New York Times's Jayson Blair was busted for plagiarism and fabrications--and then its star writer Rick Bragg was suspended and quit after claiming an intern's reporting as his own--the media lit up like the switchboard of a gossipy small town. Reporters investigated reporters. The Times newsroom erupted in finger pointing. Journalism professors raised themselves up on their suede elbow patches to tsk-tsk. Newspapers worriedly reviewed their policies. Collectively, we agonized: Will the public ever trust us again...
...Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants." RICK BRAGG, New York Times reporter, defending himself after he was suspended for using uncredited material from an intern in a story about Florida oystermen. His comment infuriated some newsroom colleagues, and he later resigned...
SUSPENDED. RICK BRAGG, 43, Pulitzer prizewinning, Alabama-born reporter for the New York Times; after his editors discovered that he used uncredited material from a freelance reporter in a story about oystermen in Apalachicola, Fla.; reportedly for two weeks; in New York City. The move followed the resignation of another Times reporter, Jayson Blair, after the discovery of numerous mistakes and fabrications in his stories...
...Former Houston Coach] Dr. Bragg Stockton, who just passed away, was probably the biggest influence on my baseball life other than my dad,” Hendricks says. “I always went to all of his camps, so I was his bat boy. He let me come out there whenever I wasn’t playing, and I got to hang around college players...