As a group, biggest stakeholders are citizens of democracies, which depend on journalists to grow trust in readers with accurate reporting. WHY: The Blair case raises questions about hiring, management and overall editorial policy. First, there is the issue of relative inexperience in a super-high-stakes newsroom. Is it fair to senior staffers to allow a fresh-out-of-college writer to step into the ranks? More importantly, is it fair to expect such an inexperienced writer, however talented, to produce reporting as sharp as that of a decorated correspondent?
While a pure meritocracy allows an individual of any experience level to fill any role, talent in the absence of experience could lead to diminished professionalism: Blair's ability to impress editors with his writing may have led to him feeling that facts are less important than prose. Second, there is the question of who is responsible for letting Blair go so far. Is it the editor who hired him straight from the University of Maryland?
But no one did. That hits me. Blair now lives in Northern Virginia, close to the family and friends he grew up with. After starting support groups in his area, he began working in mental health and currently runs his own life coaching practice. It took him, he estimates, eight years to truly gain perspective on what happened. Student Projects. What sounds like the end of a long, difficult scandal was actually just the beginning. It was just two days earlier that an editor at the San Antonio Express News told the New York Times, where Jayson Blair worked, that Blair had lifted passages from them for a story about the family of a missing Iraqi War veteran.
Ten years later, Jayson Blair is still one of the best-remembered and best-known plagiarists in history, in particular for journalism. After a decade, we have a unique opportunity to look back at the scandal, see how it changed journalism, plagiarism and authorship in general. Jayson Blair was brought on at the New York Times as an intern in He was offered an extended internship the next year but it was postponed so he could complete school, which he never did.
Shortly after he was hired as an intermediate reporter and was later brought on as a full-time staff member. His rise to the top of his industry was astounding to many. At age 27, Blair was the lead reporter on the Beltway Sniper shootings and trial, one of the biggest stories at the time, for the most prominent newspaper in the country.
Encouraging papers to spend any extra time or money, no matter how little, on what is seen as non-essential is a tough proposition. The other is that news organizations value the relationship with their journalists and wish to preserve it. Many journalists treat the implementation of plagiarism detection software or more robust fact-checking as a sign of mistrust and protest against it.
However, newspapers and other news outlets can not afford another Jayson Blair. For most mainstream media publications trying to compete online, their reputation is their greatest asset and is something that online-only outlets can not yet duplicate.
If that is lost, then much of their future is likely lost as well. The same as academic and scientific publishers need to get in front of the issue of plagiarism, the need is possibly even more urgent for news organizations. For newspapers and other news organizations, this issue is only going to get more urgent.
The public is getting better armed and becoming more aware about these issues. For example, Churnalism U. Simply by installing a browser extension, a reader is alerted when content from questionable sources appears in an article, letting the reader make the decision if the content was used and cited in an appropriate way.
The simple truth is that readers are not going to become less savvy about these issues.
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