Looking Back On Gerald Boyd

When Jayson Blair went on his plagarism/story invention streak at the New York Times, one of the unexpected casualties was managing editor Gerald Boyd. A career newsman who was one of the best editors at the Times, he was unfortunately forced to fall on his sword in the wake of the Blair scandal.

New York just ran a great profile of Boyd’s career that touches on everything from institutional racism at the Times to newspaper publishing in the post-internet age.

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