The Best Stories You've nEver Read #26
Gerald Boyd: The Jackie Robinson of the New York Times.
This week's installment concerns St. Louis native and former Post-Dispatch scribe Gerald Boyd who went on to become managing editor of the New York Times. He was fairly described as the Jackie Robinson of the Times, but his career went down in flames in the wake of the Jayson Blair affair. He died of lung cancer a year ago. Now in a riveting and nuanced account, New York Magazine's Jeff Coplon tells Boyd's story.
