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Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception

Date: May 11, 2003
Author: * Staff Writer(s)
QUOTE: A staff reporter for The New York Times committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events in recent months, an investigation by Times journalists has found.

ABSTRACT: The New York Times reports that a former staff writer frequently wrote fraudulent articles for the paper, fabricating details and plagiarizing other news sources to depict events he never saw. The Times says Jayson Blair violated the principles of trust and honesty, the tenets of journalism, that his colleagues and readers had counted on. --- Sara Holliday

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