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Jayson Blair

February 15, 2024

For the actor, see Jayson Blair (actor).

Jayson Thomas Blair (born March 23, 1976) is an American former journalist who worked for The New York Times. He resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of fabrication and plagiarism in his stories.

Jayson Blair
Born
Jayson Thomas Blair

(1976-03-23) March 23, 1976 (age 47)
Columbia, Maryland, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Maryland, College Park
Occupations
  • Writer
  • journalist
  • life coach

Blair published a memoir of this period, titled Burning Down My Masters' House (2004), recounting his career, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder after his resignation, and his view of race relations at the newspaper. He later established a support group for people with bipolar disorder and became a life coach.

Background edit

Blair was born in Columbia, Maryland, the son of a federal executive and a schoolteacher. While attending the University of Maryland, College Park, he was a student journalist. For the 1996–1997 academic year, he was selected as the second African-American editor-in-chief of its student newspaper, The Diamondback. According to a 2004 article by the Baltimore Sun, "some of his fellow students opposed his selection describing him as 'an elbows-out competitor.'"[1]

After a summer interning at The New York Times in 1998, Blair was offered an extended internship there. He declined in order to complete more coursework for graduation, but returned to the Times in June 1999 with a year of coursework left to complete.[2] That November, he was classified as an "intermediate reporter".[2] He was later promoted to a full reporter and then to editor.

Plagiarism and fabrication scandal edit

On April 28, 2003, Blair received a call from Times national editor James Roberts asking him about similarities between a story he had written two days earlier[3] and one published April 18 by San Antonio Express-News reporter Macarena Hernandez.[4] The senior editor of the Express-News had contacted the Times about the similarities between Blair's article in the Times and Hernandez's article in his paper.[1]

The resulting inquiry led to the discovery of fabrication and plagiarism in a number of articles written by Blair.[5] Some fabrications include Blair's claims to have traveled to the city mentioned in the dateline, when in fact he did not.

Questionable articles include the following:[6]

  • In the October 30, 2002, piece "US Sniper Case Seen as a Barrier to a Confession", Blair wrote that a dispute between police authorities had ruined the interrogation of Beltway sniper suspect John Muhammad and that Muhammad was about to confess, quoting unnamed officials.[7] This was swiftly denied by everyone involved. Blair also named certain lawyers, who were not present, as having witnessed the interrogation.[6]
  • In the February 10, 2003, piece "Peace and Answers Eluding Victims of the Sniper Attacks", Blair claimed to be in Washington.[8] He allegedly plagiarized quotations from a Washington Post story and fabricated quotations from a person he had never interviewed. Blair ascribed a wide range of attributes to a man featured in the article, almost all of which the man in question denied. Blair also published information that he had promised was to be off the record.[6]
  • In the March 3, 2003, piece "Making Sniper Suspect Talk Puts Detective in Spotlight", Blair claimed to be in Fairfax, Virginia.[9] He described a videotape of Lee Malvo, the younger defendant in the case, being questioned by police and quoted officials' review of the tape. No such tape existed. Blair also claimed a detective noticed blood on a man's jeans leading to a confession, which had not occurred.[6]
  • In the March 27, 2003, piece "Relatives of Missing Soldiers Dread Hearing Worse News", Blair claimed to be in West Virginia.[10] He allegedly plagiarized quotations from an Associated Press article. He claimed to have spoken to the father of Jessica Lynch, who had no recollection of meeting Blair; said "tobacco fields and cattle pastures" were visible from Lynch's parents' house when they were not; erroneously stated that Lynch's brother was in the National Guard; misspelled Lynch's mother's name; and fabricated a dream that he claimed she had had.[6]
  • In the April 3, 2003, piece "Rescue in Iraq and a 'Big Stir' in West Virginia", Blair claimed to have covered the Lynch story from her hometown of Palestine, West Virginia.[11] Blair never traveled to Palestine, and his entire contribution to the story consisted of rearranged details from Associated Press stories.[6]
  • In the April 7, 2003, piece "For One Pastor, the War Hits Home", Blair wrote of a church service in Cleveland and an interview with the minister.[12] Blair never went to Cleveland; he spoke to the minister by telephone, and copied portions of the article from an earlier Washington Post article. He also plagiarized quotations from The Plain Dealer and New York Daily News. He fabricated a detail about the minister keeping a picture of his son inside his Bible and got the name of the church wrong.[6]
  • In the April 19, 2003, piece "In Military Wards, Questions and Fears from the Wounded", Blair described interviewing four injured soldiers in a naval hospital.[13] He had never gone to the hospital and had spoken to only one soldier by telephone, to whom he later attributed made-up quotes. Blair wrote that the soldier "will most likely limp the rest of his life and need to use a cane", which was untrue. He said another soldier had lost his right leg when it had been amputated below the knee. He described two soldiers as being in the hospital at the same time, but they were admitted five days apart.[6]

After internal investigations, The New York Times reported on Blair's journalistic misdeeds in an "unprecedented"[14] 7,239-word front-page story on May 11, 2003, headlined "Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception."[2] The story called the affair "a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper."[2]

After the scandal broke, some 30 former staffers of The Diamondback, who had worked with Blair when he was editor-in-chief at the university newspaper, signed a 2003 letter alleging that Blair had made four serious errors as a reporter and editor while at the University of Maryland. They said these and his work habits brought his integrity into question. The letter-signers alleged that questions raised by some of these staffers at the time were ignored by Maryland Media, Inc. (MMI), the board that owned the paper.[1][15]

Aftermath edit

The investigation, known as the Siegal committee, found heated debate among the staff over affirmative action hiring, as Blair is black. Jonathan Landman, Blair's editor, told the Siegal committee he felt that Blair's being black played a large part in the younger man's initial promotion in 2001 to full-time staffer. "I think race was the decisive factor in his promotion," he said. "I thought then and I think now that it was the wrong decision."[16]

Others disagreed. Five days later, New York Times op-ed columnist Bob Herbert, an African American, asserted in his column that race had nothing to do with the Blair case:

Listen up: the race issue in this case is as bogus as some of Jayson Blair's reporting... [F]olks who delight in attacking anything black, or anything designed to help blacks, have pounced on the Blair story as evidence that there is something inherently wrong with The New York Times's effort to diversify its newsroom, and beyond that, with the very idea of a commitment to diversity or affirmative action anywhere. And while these agitators won't admit it, the nasty subtext to their attack is that there is something inherently wrong with blacks.[17]

Executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd resigned after losing newsroom support in the aftermath of the scandal.

After resigning from the Times, Blair struggled with severe depression and, according to his memoir, entered a hospital for treatment. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder for the first time. He has acknowledged that he had been self-medicating when he was dealing with substance abuse of alcohol and cocaine in earlier years.[18]

Later career edit

Blair later returned to college to complete his postponed degree.[19]

The year after he left the Times, Blair wrote a memoir, Burning Down My Masters' House, published by New Millennium Books in 2004. Its initial print run was 250,000 copies; some 1,400 were sold in its first nine days.[20] Although most reviews were critical, sales of the book increased after Blair was interviewed by Larry King and Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly.[21]

In his book, Blair revealed extended substance abuse, which he had ended before he resigned from the newspaper, and a struggle with bipolar disorder, which was diagnosed and first treated after he resigned. He also discussed journalistic practices at the Times, and his view of race relations and disagreements among senior editors at the newspaper.

In 2006, Blair was running a support group for people with bipolar disorder, for which he has received continuing treatment.[22] In 2007 he became a life coach, working in Virginia, opening his own coaching center five years later.[23] He was still working in this field in 2016.[24]

In popular culture edit

  • Choke Point, the play written by Colm Byrne and produced in 2007, is based on Blair's downfall.[25]
  • A play about Blair, CQ/CX, written by Gabe McKinley, was produced by the Atlantic Theater Company in 2012.[14] McKinley knew Blair personally, having worked at the Times during the period Blair was there.[26]
  • Law & Order used the Blair story as the inspiration for Episode 14.02: "Bounty."[27]
  • In Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the Blair story inspired an episode about a young journalist in the third season episode "Pravda" (3.5).[28]
  • Season 5 of the HBO series The Wire dealt with the subject of journalist fabrication, as well as the decline of print journalism. It mentions Jayson Blair in the last episode. The Wire creator David Simon had been a Baltimore Sun journalist and worked on The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park, where Blair was editor.
  • A 2003 series of Pearls Before Swine comic strips portray Rat writing fraudulent New York Times stories on former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.[29]
  • A scene in Gilmore Girls episode "The Reigning Lorelai" (4.16) shows Rory's editor, Doyle, becoming frustrated with the way Yale Daily News staffers act in the newsroom, calling it "the breeding ground for the next Jayson Blair."
  • A documentary film featuring Jayson Blair was made by director/producer Samantha Grant. A Fragile Trust premiered at the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival on June 14, 2013.[30]
  • An episode of The Simpsons based a joke on the Blair story in Episode 15.22: "Fraudcast News." Milhouse tells Lisa he's sorry but a story he "filed from Baghdad was all made up, (he) was actually in Basrah."[31]
  • During the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2008,[32][33] Craig Ferguson remarked, "The New York Times unfortunately did not buy a table. They feel -- I just want to make sure I get this right -- they felt that this event undercuts the credibility of the press. It's funny, you see I thought that Jayson Blair and Judy Miller took care of that."[34][35]

See also edit

Bibliography edit

  • Blair, Jayson (2004). Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times. New Millennium Press. ISBN 978-1-932407-26-6.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Folkenflik, David (February 29, 2004). . Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d "Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception". The New York Times. May 11, 2003. Retrieved May 11, 2003.
  3. ^ Blair, Jayson (April 26, 2003). "AFTEREFFECTS: THE MISSING; Family Waits, Now Alone, for a Missing Soldier". The New York Times. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  4. ^ . 2008. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved February 24, 2008.
  5. ^ Rosen, Jill (June–July 2003). "All about the retrospect: Jayson Blair charmed and dazzled the right people on his rapid rise from cocky college student to New York Times national reporter. But he left plenty of clues about the serious problems that lay beneath the surface". American Journalism Review. Vol. 25, no. 5. College Park: University of Maryland. p. 32+.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h "CORRECTING THE RECORD; Witnesses and Documents Unveil Deceptions In a Reporter's Work". The New York Times. May 11, 2003. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
  7. ^ Blair, Jayson (October 30, 2002). "Retracing A Trail: The Investigation; U.S. Sniper Case Seen As A Barrier To A Confession". The New York Times. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  8. ^ Blair, Jayson (February 10, 2003). "Peace and Answers Eluding Victims of the Sniper Attacks". The New York Times. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  9. ^ Blair, Jayson (March 3, 2003). "Making Sniper Suspect Talk Puts Detective in Spotlight". The New York Times. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  10. ^ Blair, Jayson (March 27, 2003). "A NATION AT WAR: MILITARY FAMILIES; Relatives of Missing Soldiers Dread Hearing Worse News". The New York Times. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  11. ^ Jehl, Douglas; Blair, Jayson (April 3, 2003). "A NATION AT WAR: THE HOMETOWN; Rescue in Iraq and a 'Big Stir' in West Virginia". The New York Times. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  12. ^ Blair, Jayson (April 7, 2003). "A NATION AT WAR: THE FAMILIES; For One Pastor, the War Hits Home". The New York Times. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  13. ^ Blair, Jayson (April 19, 2003). "A NATION AT WAR: VETERANS; In Military Wards, Questions and Fears From the Wounded". The New York Times. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  14. ^ a b Rizzo, Frank (February 15, 2012). "'CQ/CX' by Gabe McKinley at Peter Norton Space". The New York Times.
  15. ^ Jason Flanagan. . The Diamondback. UWIRE.com. Archived from the original on January 15, 2006. Retrieved June 13, 2003.
  16. ^ . PBS. 2008. Archived from the original on August 19, 2008. Retrieved February 24, 2008.
  17. ^ Herbert, Bob (May 19, 2003). "Truth, Lies and Subtext". The New York Times.
  18. ^ , Poynter Online, 15 June 2005
  19. ^ Perrone, Matthew (June 9, 2005). Fairfax County Times. Archived from the original on December 1, 2006.
  20. ^ "Ex-journalists' books not selling". Los Angeles Times. March 20, 2004.
  21. ^ Associated Press, "Few buyers for books by disgraced journalists Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass", USA Today, 18 March 2004
  22. ^ Caesar, Ed (May 3, 2006). "Jayson Blair: The man who fooled America". The Independent. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
  23. ^ Subramanian, Courtney (February 20, 2012). "Disgraced Journalist Jayson Blair Is Now a Life Coach". Time. Retrieved May 17, 2019 – via newsfeed.time.com.
  24. ^ "Jayson Blair Returns to the University of Maryland - Washingtonian (DC)". April 7, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  25. ^ Colm Byrne (September 15, 2007). "Choke Point Theatre Review". Three Weeks Magazine.
  26. ^ Zeitchik, Steven (February 24, 2012). "Ripped from the fake headlines". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  27. ^ Faile, Chris (July 31, 2003). ""Law & Order" Takes on The New York Times Scandal". Filmjerk.com. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  28. ^ Faile, Chris (September 22, 2003). ""Law & Order" Franchise to Give Jayson Blair/New York Times Saga One More". Filmjerk.com. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  29. ^ "Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My!: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury". www.amazon.com. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  30. ^ "Synopsis". A Fragile Trust website. A Fragile Trust. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  31. ^ "Last Exit To Springfield :: Simpsons Sounds :: Fraudcast News". www.lardlad.com. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  32. ^ "Why NYT doesn't attend White House Correspondents' Association Dinner". May 4, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  33. ^ Lahitou, Jessicah (April 28, 2017). "Who's Boycotting The White House Correspondents' Dinner?". Bustle. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  34. ^ "Best lines from past White House Correspondents' Dinners". Politico.
  35. ^ "2008 White House Correspondents' Dinner". C-SPAN.

Further reading edit

External links edit

  • Official website
  • Jayson Blair at IMDb
  • Goose Creek Coaching and Consulting, Blair's company November 22, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  • Global coverage of articles on the story at Journalism.org
  • Q&A: Jayson Blair via mediabistro
  • Appearances on C-SPAN

February 15, 2024
jayson, blair, actor, actor, jayson, thomas, blair, born, march, 1976, american, former, journalist, worked, york, times, resigned, from, newspaper, 2003, wake, discovery, fabrication, plagiarism, stories, bornjayson, thomas, blair, 1976, march, 1976, columbia. For the actor see Jayson Blair actor Jayson Thomas Blair born March 23 1976 is an American former journalist who worked for The New York Times He resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of fabrication and plagiarism in his stories Jayson BlairBornJayson Thomas Blair 1976 03 23 March 23 1976 age 47 Columbia Maryland U S Alma materUniversity of Maryland College ParkOccupationsWriterjournalistlife coachBlair published a memoir of this period titled Burning Down My Masters House 2004 recounting his career a diagnosis of bipolar disorder after his resignation and his view of race relations at the newspaper He later established a support group for people with bipolar disorder and became a life coach Contents 1 Background 2 Plagiarism and fabrication scandal 3 Aftermath 4 Later career 5 In popular culture 6 See also 7 Bibliography 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksBackground editBlair was born in Columbia Maryland the son of a federal executive and a schoolteacher While attending the University of Maryland College Park he was a student journalist For the 1996 1997 academic year he was selected as the second African American editor in chief of its student newspaper The Diamondback According to a 2004 article by the Baltimore Sun some of his fellow students opposed his selection describing him as an elbows out competitor 1 After a summer interning at The New York Times in 1998 Blair was offered an extended internship there He declined in order to complete more coursework for graduation but returned to the Times in June 1999 with a year of coursework left to complete 2 That November he was classified as an intermediate reporter 2 He was later promoted to a full reporter and then to editor Plagiarism and fabrication scandal editOn April 28 2003 Blair received a call from Times national editor James Roberts asking him about similarities between a story he had written two days earlier 3 and one published April 18 by San Antonio Express News reporter Macarena Hernandez 4 The senior editor of the Express News had contacted the Times about the similarities between Blair s article in the Times and Hernandez s article in his paper 1 The resulting inquiry led to the discovery of fabrication and plagiarism in a number of articles written by Blair 5 Some fabrications include Blair s claims to have traveled to the city mentioned in the dateline when in fact he did not Questionable articles include the following 6 In the October 30 2002 piece US Sniper Case Seen as a Barrier to a Confession Blair wrote that a dispute between police authorities had ruined the interrogation of Beltway sniper suspect John Muhammad and that Muhammad was about to confess quoting unnamed officials 7 This was swiftly denied by everyone involved Blair also named certain lawyers who were not present as having witnessed the interrogation 6 In the February 10 2003 piece Peace and Answers Eluding Victims of the Sniper Attacks Blair claimed to be in Washington 8 He allegedly plagiarized quotations from a Washington Post story and fabricated quotations from a person he had never interviewed Blair ascribed a wide range of attributes to a man featured in the article almost all of which the man in question denied Blair also published information that he had promised was to be off the record 6 In the March 3 2003 piece Making Sniper Suspect Talk Puts Detective in Spotlight Blair claimed to be in Fairfax Virginia 9 He described a videotape of Lee Malvo the younger defendant in the case being questioned by police and quoted officials review of the tape No such tape existed Blair also claimed a detective noticed blood on a man s jeans leading to a confession which had not occurred 6 In the March 27 2003 piece Relatives of Missing Soldiers Dread Hearing Worse News Blair claimed to be in West Virginia 10 He allegedly plagiarized quotations from an Associated Press article He claimed to have spoken to the father of Jessica Lynch who had no recollection of meeting Blair said tobacco fields and cattle pastures were visible from Lynch s parents house when they were not erroneously stated that Lynch s brother was in the National Guard misspelled Lynch s mother s name and fabricated a dream that he claimed she had had 6 In the April 3 2003 piece Rescue in Iraq and a Big Stir in West Virginia Blair claimed to have covered the Lynch story from her hometown of Palestine West Virginia 11 Blair never traveled to Palestine and his entire contribution to the story consisted of rearranged details from Associated Press stories 6 In the April 7 2003 piece For One Pastor the War Hits Home Blair wrote of a church service in Cleveland and an interview with the minister 12 Blair never went to Cleveland he spoke to the minister by telephone and copied portions of the article from an earlier Washington Post article He also plagiarized quotations from The Plain Dealer and New York Daily News He fabricated a detail about the minister keeping a picture of his son inside his Bible and got the name of the church wrong 6 In the April 19 2003 piece In Military Wards Questions and Fears from the Wounded Blair described interviewing four injured soldiers in a naval hospital 13 He had never gone to the hospital and had spoken to only one soldier by telephone to whom he later attributed made up quotes Blair wrote that the soldier will most likely limp the rest of his life and need to use a cane which was untrue He said another soldier had lost his right leg when it had been amputated below the knee He described two soldiers as being in the hospital at the same time but they were admitted five days apart 6 After internal investigations The New York Times reported on Blair s journalistic misdeeds in an unprecedented 14 7 239 word front page story on May 11 2003 headlined Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception 2 The story called the affair a low point in the 152 year history of the newspaper 2 After the scandal broke some 30 former staffers of The Diamondback who had worked with Blair when he was editor in chief at the university newspaper signed a 2003 letter alleging that Blair had made four serious errors as a reporter and editor while at the University of Maryland They said these and his work habits brought his integrity into question The letter signers alleged that questions raised by some of these staffers at the time were ignored by Maryland Media Inc MMI the board that owned the paper 1 15 Aftermath editThe investigation known as the Siegal committee found heated debate among the staff over affirmative action hiring as Blair is black Jonathan Landman Blair s editor told the Siegal committee he felt that Blair s being black played a large part in the younger man s initial promotion in 2001 to full time staffer I think race was the decisive factor in his promotion he said I thought then and I think now that it was the wrong decision 16 Others disagreed Five days later New York Times op ed columnist Bob Herbert an African American asserted in his column that race had nothing to do with the Blair case Listen up the race issue in this case is as bogus as some of Jayson Blair s reporting F olks who delight in attacking anything black or anything designed to help blacks have pounced on the Blair story as evidence that there is something inherently wrong with The New York Times s effort to diversify its newsroom and beyond that with the very idea of a commitment to diversity or affirmative action anywhere And while these agitators won t admit it the nasty subtext to their attack is that there is something inherently wrong with blacks 17 Executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd resigned after losing newsroom support in the aftermath of the scandal After resigning from the Times Blair struggled with severe depression and according to his memoir entered a hospital for treatment He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder for the first time He has acknowledged that he had been self medicating when he was dealing with substance abuse of alcohol and cocaine in earlier years 18 Later career editBlair later returned to college to complete his postponed degree 19 The year after he left the Times Blair wrote a memoir Burning Down My Masters House published by New Millennium Books in 2004 Its initial print run was 250 000 copies some 1 400 were sold in its first nine days 20 Although most reviews were critical sales of the book increased after Blair was interviewed by Larry King and Fox News Channel host Bill O Reilly 21 In his book Blair revealed extended substance abuse which he had ended before he resigned from the newspaper and a struggle with bipolar disorder which was diagnosed and first treated after he resigned He also discussed journalistic practices at the Times and his view of race relations and disagreements among senior editors at the newspaper In 2006 Blair was running a support group for people with bipolar disorder for which he has received continuing treatment 22 In 2007 he became a life coach working in Virginia opening his own coaching center five years later 23 He was still working in this field in 2016 24 In popular culture editChoke Point the play written by Colm Byrne and produced in 2007 is based on Blair s downfall 25 A play about Blair CQ CX written by Gabe McKinley was produced by the Atlantic Theater Company in 2012 14 McKinley knew Blair personally having worked at the Times during the period Blair was there 26 Law amp Order used the Blair story as the inspiration for Episode 14 02 Bounty 27 In Law amp Order Criminal Intent the Blair story inspired an episode about a young journalist in the third season episode Pravda 3 5 28 Season 5 of the HBO series The Wire dealt with the subject of journalist fabrication as well as the decline of print journalism It mentions Jayson Blair in the last episode The Wire creator David Simon had been a Baltimore Sun journalist and worked on The Diamondback the student newspaper at the University of Maryland College Park where Blair was editor A 2003 series of Pearls Before Swine comic strips portray Rat writing fraudulent New York Times stories on former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein 29 A scene in Gilmore Girls episode The Reigning Lorelai 4 16 shows Rory s editor Doyle becoming frustrated with the way Yale Daily News staffers act in the newsroom calling it the breeding ground for the next Jayson Blair A documentary film featuring Jayson Blair was made by director producer Samantha Grant A Fragile Trust premiered at the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival on June 14 2013 30 An episode of The Simpsons based a joke on the Blair story in Episode 15 22 Fraudcast News Milhouse tells Lisa he s sorry but a story he filed from Baghdad was all made up he was actually in Basrah 31 During the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2008 32 33 Craig Ferguson remarked The New York Times unfortunately did not buy a table They feel I just want to make sure I get this right they felt that this event undercuts the credibility of the press It s funny you see I thought that Jayson Blair and Judy Miller took care of that 34 35 See also editJudith Miller Brian Williams Sabrina Erdely Wendy Bergen Jack Kelley Janet Cooke Johann Hari Journalism scandals Kevin Deutsch Stephen Glass Ruth Shalit Claas Relotius Fake newsBibliography editBlair Jayson 2004 Burning Down My Masters House My Life at the New York Times New Millennium Press ISBN 978 1 932407 26 6 References edit a b c Folkenflik David February 29 2004 The Making of Jayson Blair Baltimore Sun Archived from the original on June 29 2011 Retrieved February 14 2012 a b c d Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception The New York Times May 11 2003 Retrieved May 11 2003 Blair Jayson April 26 2003 AFTEREFFECTS THE MISSING Family Waits Now Alone for a Missing Soldier The New York Times Retrieved May 6 2010 MySA com Iraq After the War 2008 Archived from the original on September 29 2007 Retrieved February 24 2008 Rosen Jill June July 2003 All about the retrospect Jayson Blair charmed and dazzled the right people on his rapid rise from cocky college student to New York Times national reporter But he left plenty of clues about the serious problems that lay beneath the surface American Journalism Review Vol 25 no 5 College Park University of Maryland p 32 a b c d e f g h CORRECTING THE RECORD Witnesses and Documents Unveil Deceptions In a Reporter s Work The New York Times May 11 2003 Retrieved February 17 2018 Blair Jayson October 30 2002 Retracing A Trail The Investigation U S Sniper Case Seen As A Barrier To A Confession The New York Times Retrieved May 6 2010 Blair Jayson February 10 2003 Peace and Answers Eluding Victims of the Sniper Attacks The New York Times Retrieved May 6 2010 Blair Jayson March 3 2003 Making Sniper Suspect Talk Puts Detective in Spotlight The New York Times Retrieved May 6 2010 Blair Jayson March 27 2003 A NATION AT WAR MILITARY FAMILIES Relatives of Missing Soldiers Dread Hearing Worse News The New York Times Retrieved May 6 2010 Jehl Douglas Blair Jayson April 3 2003 A NATION AT WAR THE HOMETOWN Rescue in Iraq and a Big Stir in West Virginia The New York Times Retrieved May 6 2010 Blair Jayson April 7 2003 A NATION AT WAR THE FAMILIES For One Pastor the War Hits Home The New York Times Retrieved May 6 2010 Blair Jayson April 19 2003 A NATION AT WAR VETERANS In Military Wards Questions and Fears From the Wounded The New York Times Retrieved May 6 2010 a b Rizzo Frank February 15 2012 CQ CX by Gabe McKinley at Peter Norton Space The New York Times Jason Flanagan Former Blair co workers claim warnings ignored The Diamondback UWIRE com Archived from the original on January 15 2006 Retrieved June 13 2003 Jayson Blair A Case Study of What Went Wrong at The New York Times PBS 2008 Archived from the original on August 19 2008 Retrieved February 24 2008 Herbert Bob May 19 2003 Truth Lies and Subtext The New York Times Letter by Jayson Blair Blair Outsourcing EAP is a mistake Poynter Online 15 June 2005 Perrone Matthew June 9 2005 Jayson Blair searches for new life reflects Fairfax County Times Archived from the original on December 1 2006 Ex journalists books not selling Los Angeles Times March 20 2004 Associated Press Few buyers for books by disgraced journalists Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass USA Today 18 March 2004 Caesar Ed May 3 2006 Jayson Blair The man who fooled America The Independent Retrieved July 2 2017 Subramanian Courtney February 20 2012 Disgraced Journalist Jayson Blair Is Now a Life Coach Time Retrieved May 17 2019 via newsfeed time com Jayson Blair Returns to the University of Maryland Washingtonian DC April 7 2016 Retrieved May 17 2019 Colm Byrne September 15 2007 Choke Point Theatre Review Three Weeks Magazine Zeitchik Steven February 24 2012 Ripped from the fake headlines Los Angeles Times Retrieved October 15 2017 Faile Chris July 31 2003 Law amp Order Takes on The New York Times Scandal Filmjerk com Retrieved October 15 2017 Faile Chris September 22 2003 Law amp Order Franchise to Give Jayson Blair New York Times Saga One More Filmjerk com Retrieved October 15 2017 Amazon com Customer reviews Lions and Tigers and Crocs Oh My A Pearls Before Swine Treasury www amazon com Retrieved May 17 2019 Synopsis A Fragile Trust website A Fragile Trust Retrieved May 29 2014 Last Exit To Springfield Simpsons Sounds Fraudcast News www lardlad com Retrieved May 17 2019 Why NYT doesn t attend White House Correspondents Association Dinner May 4 2011 Retrieved May 17 2019 Lahitou Jessicah April 28 2017 Who s Boycotting The White House Correspondents Dinner Bustle Retrieved May 17 2019 Best lines from past White House Correspondents Dinners Politico 2008 White House Correspondents Dinner C SPAN Further reading edit N Y Times Uncovers Dozens of Faked Stories by Reporter Washington Post May 11 2003 Kugler Sara New York Times executives Howell Raines Gerald Boyd resign Associated Press June 5 2003 Making a Turnaround bp Magazine bphope com Spring 2005 Retrieved 2010 12 06 Jayson Blair searches for new life reflects on legacy Fairfax County Times June 9 2005 Blair Outsourcing EAP NYT s employee assistance program is a mistake Romenesko Media News Poynter Institute June 15 2005 External links editOfficial website Jayson Blair at IMDb Goose Creek Coaching and Consulting Blair s company Archived November 22 2021 at the Wayback Machine Global coverage of articles on the story at Journalism org Q amp A Jayson Blair via mediabistro Appearances on C SPAN Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jayson Blair amp oldid 1203909634, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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