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...deceived shareholders who otherwise would be worried that insider-trading allegations would damage a company built entirely around the image of its namesake. (The stock indeed rose briefly after Stewart's early statements defending herself but last week was down to $10.24 a share, from $19.01 before the scandal broke...
Raines and his No. 2, managing editor Gerald Boyd, resigned last week in an unprecedented downfall at a major American newspaper. At first glance, their toppling was the climax--the Times hopes--of a humiliating season of scandal that began with the disclosures that young reporter Jayson Blair had plagiarized or fabricated a string of stories. But at root, it was something more mundane and yet amazing: a workplace's staging a public mutiny to take down an unpopular boss. What fueled its unstoppable drama was that the mutiny took place at the country's most important (and some would...
...make choices," said Sulzberger. "Some work. Some don't work. My heart was broken because these men were taking an act for the good of an institution that they and I love." (A Times spokeswoman said Raines and Boyd would not comment for this article.) And indeed, the Blair scandal and its aftermath followed a decade in which Sulzberger had modernized and in many ways improved the staid Gray Lady. The son of the previous publisher and scion of a family that has owned the Times since 1896, Sulzberger beefed up the paper's features and cultural coverage, raised...
...meeting of 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...
...chilling 1996 Human Rights Watch report called Death by Default. Her actions helped clean up the orphanage, but today Zhang fears she has sent the wrong message to colleagues back home. She must live in exile, but the man whom Human Rights Watch blamed for covering up the scandal, Wu Bangguo, is No. 2 in the Politburo. "Other doctors will learn from my experience and keep their mouths shut," Zhang says...