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...Okrent came to the Times in late 2003, in the wake of the scandal that began with a slew of fabrications by reporter Jayson Blair and culminated with change atop the newspaper’s masthead and an experiment with the ombudsman-like position of public editor...
...Okrent said yesterday that he would spend his semester at the Shorenstein Center working on two books—one a collection of his Times columns, and the other a longer-term project on the history of the U.S. during prohibition...
...Okrent started his job at the Times in the midst of “widespread skepticism” in the newsroom about the necessity of a public editor, said Adam Nagourney, a political correspondent for the paper who was a fellow at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics this fall. Nagourney—himself a target of a 2004 Okrent column criticizing the Times’ coverage of the Howard Dean campaign—said much of that skepticism evaporated by the end of Okrent’s tenure...
Byron Calame succeeded Okrent in May 2005, by which point Okrent had “made it very clear that the public editor at the New York Times was truly independent,” Calame said yesterday...
...interview yesterday, Okrent said that “establishing the job” of public editor at the Times was among the most important achievements of his tenure there. While Okrent said the post has yet to be formally declared permanent, it will remain “certainly for the foreseeable future...