Times Response

Times Response to Jayson Blair:

New Sourcing Policy, Self-Assessment, Appointment of Public Editor

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Correcting the Record: Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception The New York Times. May 11, 2003

The New York Times Names Daniel Okrent Public Editor, 10/27/03

From the NYT Properties Page:

Guidelines on Integrity
Confidential News Sources 2/25/04
Siegal Committee Report (PDF)
Preserving Our Readers' Trust (PDF)
Assuring our Credibility (PDF)
Company Journalism Ethics Policy, revised 10/05

Additional Articles Available through the UMass Online Library
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Neil Hickey. "A Public Editor's Private Story: Bruised Egos, Lynch Mobs, and Tricky Self-Interest; Daniel Okrent's run at The New York Times." Columbia Journalism Review 44.1 (May-June 2005): p24(4).

Scott Sherman. The Chastening of the Times. The Nation 279.11 (Oct 11, 2004): p29.

Katharine Q. Seelye. "The Times Appoints a Successor to Its First Public Editor." The New York Times, April 6, 2005.

Other Related Articles on the Web

Howell Raines. "My Times." The Atlantic Monthly, May 2004

THE PUBLIC EDITOR: "Briefers and Leakers and the Newspapers Who Enable Them." The New York Times, May 8, 2005

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