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September 21: Nancy Hicks Maynard, one of the first black female reporters at the New York Times and once the publisher of The Oakland Tribune, dies.
September 22: The New York Times publishes its obituary.
September 25: The Gray Lady admits that “An obituary on Tuesday about Nancy Hicks Maynard, a newspaper publisher and journalism educator, included a number of errors.”
October 9: The Gray Lady admits that it had erred again: “An obituary on Sept. 23 about Nancy Hicks Maynard, a newspaper publisher and journalism educator, attributed an erroneous distinction to her, and a correction in this space on Sept.
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