WOULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN EASIER TO JUST HAVE COMPETENT EDITORS?

Report: Times Suspends Reporter Bragg (Associated Press, May 23, 2003)

The New York Times has suspended Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Bragg for two weeks, the Columbia Journalism Review reported Friday, the same day the newspaper published an editors' note about his handling of a feature story about Florida oystermen.

The note said that while Bragg wrote the June 15 article and visited the Gulf Coast town where it originated, interviewing and other reporting at the scene were done by a freelance journalist working for the newspaper. The note did not make it clear whether Bragg's editors had known the role of the freelancer at the time.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 23, 2003 11:25 PM