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Maybe not everyone who writes news stories shares the same exact excitement, but it still seems that I’m not the only one who likes datelines. Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair liked datelines so much that he’d put them in his articles even if he hadn’t visited those cities. My colleagues at The Crimson have managed to turn this little scrap of journalism into an art form. Among the unorthodox datelines I’ve seen on this page this summer are the abstract “THE INTERNSHIP LINE?...
...executive editor, the paper's highest-ranking newsroom post; in New York City. Keller takes over from former executive editor Joseph Lelyveld, who was brought back as acting newsroom chief after the June resignation of Howell Raines amid newsroom dissension following disclosures of extensive fabrications in stories by reporter Jayson Blair...
...time, it might have seemed an overreaction to a little publicity. Now--after New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was caught in a string of plagiarisms and fabrications, ultimately leading to a staff revolt and the resignation of Times executive editor Howell Raines--it seems prescient. It also underscores Jurgensen's dual challenge. In the post-Blair era, any editor wants to avoid negative attention. On the other hand, she would like to raise the profile of the nation's largest paper, which has never called attention to itself in proportion to its size. For most Americans, USA Today...
Franklin's favorite device for poking fun at social mores and political outrages was the hoax. Unlike the frauds perpetrated by Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair, Franklin's satires were meant to be playful and to make a moral point, although they did occasionally deceive. "The Speech of Polly Baker," for example, purports to recount the speech of a young woman on trial for having a fifth illegitimate child. Franklin, who had fathered an illegitimate child but taken responsibility for him, was particularly scathing about the double standard that subjects her, but not the men who had sex with...
...morale problems at the New York Times that began with the Jayson Blair affair [PRESS, June 16] are familiar to those who work at daily newspapers in an era of takeovers by large corporations. New management teams move in, and newsroom decisions are driven largely by a system that rewards those who embrace the corporate leadership. In too many cases, the changes result in a loss of newsroom morale and the departure of many journalists. That is a bad thing in itself, but a greater loss is the decreased coverage of events in the newspaper's community and the damage...