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...national television, are in the hands of the state or of Putin's close allies. In today's Russia, it is hard to find a newspaper that is truly independent and uncowed, which is why the fearless investigative reporting of Politkovskaya was so remarkable. Just recently, Vladimir Rakhmankov, the editor of a Web magazine in the city of Ivanovo, was fined $750 for a satirical critique of Putin's plans to boost birthrates in Russia. (Rakhmankov slyly noted that foxes, bears and other animals breed at the city zoo because they are well looked after.) It was only thanks...
DIED. Gerald Boyd, 56, former managing editor of the New York Times--the first African American to hold that title at the newspaper--who resigned in 2003 following the revelation that Jayson Blair, a reporter Boyd had helped groom, had repeatedly fabricated or plagiarized stories; of lung cancer; in New York City...
Gerald M. Boyd, the first black managing editor and metropolitan editor at The New York Times, died last week in Manhattan at the age of 56. Boyd, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1980-1981, was the youngest journalist to receive the fellowship at the time. Boyd, who led Pulitzer prize winning coverage at The Times, resigned from his post as managing editor in 2003 in the wake of a plagiarism scandal surrounding Times reporter Jayson Blair. Boyd was well-equipped to handle the pressures of being black in a largely white profession, said David Lamb, one of Boyd?...
...voted on so as to prevent it from getting on the ballot. The motion to recess early, which needed the backing of a majority of legislators to pass, received 109 votes, including those of Cambridge’s three legislators. The move came as no surprise to Robert Winters, editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal and an instructor at the Extension School. “I think they’re all lobbied extensively by certain people around town and the pressure they feel tends to come from the people who are very satisfied by going into recess...
...Beausset, who is a Crimson editorial editor, has never served as a council representative...