Jayson Blair apologizes for debacle at New York Times
New York-AP -- Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair says he's "sorry for his actions and what they've done." Blair spoke with New York's W-C-B-S T-V after the resignations of Times' Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd.
Blair resigned from the paper after inventing stories and plagiarizing articles.
He says he was in a "cycle of self-destruction" -- including substance abuse, and suffered from mental illness. He says he regrets the pain it's caused his colleagues, who he says are "great and wonderful journalists."
A Times' spokeswoman says Raines and Boyd will likely be replaced by someone from the rank and file, versus from outside of the Times.
In the meantime, a former executive editor has come out of retirement to lead the newspaper during the interim.
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