Abstract
Bill Hagerty meets the chairman of the board and publisher of The New York Times, who discusses the Jayson Blair episode and beyond. When it was discovered that the reporter, had blatantly been faking stories, it was, says Sulzberger, "a huge black eye. I can't speak for anybody else, but there were shock waves...for me it was very traumatic. It came at a remarkable time, when we had just won seven Pulitzer prizes and were riding reasonably high. It was a bolt out of the blue. And it wasn't just Jayson Blair. To be fair, the events than transpired here had deeper roots than that. It was a wake-up call for us, it was a wake-up call for the industry."
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