Jayson Thomas Blair was born on March 23,1976 and is an American former journalist who worked for The New York Times.
13 Facts About Jayson Blair
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Jayson Blair resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of fabrication and plagiarism in his stories.
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Jayson Blair later established a support group for people with bipolar disorder and became a life coach.
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Jayson Blair was born in Columbia, Maryland, the son of a federal executive and a schoolteacher.
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Jayson Blair declined in order to complete more coursework for graduation, but returned to the Times in June 1999 with a year of coursework left to complete.
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Jonathan Landman, Jayson Blair's editor, told the Siegal committee he felt that Jayson Blair's being black played a large part in the younger man's initial promotion in 2001 to full-time staffer.
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Jayson Blair was diagnosed with bipolar disorder for the first time.
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Jayson Blair has acknowledged that he had been self-medicating when he was dealing with substance abuse of alcohol and cocaine in earlier years.
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Jayson Blair later returned to college to complete his postponed degree.
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The year after he left the Times, Jayson Blair wrote a memoir, Burning Down My Master's House, published by New Millennium Books in 2004.
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Jayson Blair discussed journalistic practices at the Times, and his view of race relations and disagreements among senior editors at the newspaper.
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In 2006, Jayson Blair was running a support group for people with bipolar disorder, for which he has received continuing treatment.
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Jayson Blair was still working in this field in 2016.