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New York Times appoints first standards editor
New York, Sept 10: The New York Times, recovering from a scandal over fabricated stories by one of its prominent reporters, on Tuesday appointed Assistant Managing Editor Allan Siegal as its first standards editor.
New York, Sept 10: The New York Times, recovering from a scandal over fabricated stories by one of its prominent reporters, on Tuesday appointed Assistant Managing Editor Allan Siegal as its first standards editor.
Siegal, 63, had headed The New York Times committee that reviewed the newsroom's ethical and organisational practices following the scandal sparked by former reporter Jayson Blair, who fabricated scores of stories.
"Al's qualifications for the job are irrefutable: integrity, judgment, grace and a rich memory of the precedents on which our standards are based," Executive Editor Bill Keller said in a statement.
Siegal joined The Times in 1960 as a copyboy and worked his way up the ranks, serving as a copy editor, an assistant foreign desk editor, reporter, and news editor.
Soon after Blair resigned from the paper in May, the Times published a 14,000-word account detailing his fabrications. Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd resigned the next month.
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"Al's qualifications for the job are irrefutable: integrity, judgment, grace and a rich memory of the precedents on which our standards are based," Executive Editor Bill Keller said in a statement.
Siegal joined The Times in 1960 as a copyboy and worked his way up the ranks, serving as a copy editor, an assistant foreign desk editor, reporter, and news editor.
Soon after Blair resigned from the paper in May, the Times published a 14,000-word account detailing his fabrications. Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd resigned the next month.
Bureau Report