By: Lucia Moses Howell Raines, executive editor of
The New York Times, said Jayson Blair, a former reporter for the paper, had been warned about an "unacceptable error rate," but had been improving prior to the publication of his April 26 story that appeared to lift material from a
San Antonio Express-News report.
Blair, 27, who resigned Thursday, was warned in January of last year after making 46 corrected errors in the preceding three years. Since then, Blair had made eight corrected errors, Raines told
E&P on Friday.
Blair was a reporter of "great energy and talent who was being warned about working too fast," Raines said. "He seemed to be responding to stern, professional direction," Raines went on, adding that he had no indication yet whether Blair had plagiarized in the past. "In retrospect, it seems we dealt with him appropriately based on our knowledge at that time."
Raines said the
Times is reviewing Blair's past work as well as the possible need for a change in how errors are handled.
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