Raines was appointed Executive Editor of The Times in September 2001, serving until May 2003, when controversy stemming from the Jayson Blair scandal led to his dismissal.
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He was Executive Editor of The New York Times from 2001 until he left in 2003 in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.
Boyd stepped down on June 5, 2003, along with the paper's former executive editor, Howell Raines, in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.
Jayson Blair (editor-in-chief in 1996), former journalist for The New York Times.
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In 2001, the writer Michael Finkel was discovered to have created composite characters for a story he had written on the African slave trade, a small scandal that was quickly eclipsed at the New York Times by the much larger one involving Jayson Blair.
The piece is often contrasted to modern magazine profiles in which the writers spend little time with their subjects or when writers fabricate elements of their story, such as Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, or Janet Cooke.
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' Media Reporting/Criticism Award in 2004 - for article titled "Off Target", co-written with Erik Wemple, published in Washington City Paper which helped to break the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal.
He drew comparisons with the actions of reporters Jayson Blair at The New York Times, and Stephen Glass at The New Republic.