Pulitzer winner takes the reins at newspaper after plagiarism scandal

THE New York Times yesterday named Bill Keller as executive editor, more than a month after the newspaper’s top editors resigned following a plagiarism scandal.

Keller, 54, a former Times managing editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, was chosen as the permanent replacement for Howell Raines.

Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd resigned under pressure on June 5, five weeks after the discovery that Jayson Blair, one of the paper’s young stars, had made up parts of stories and lifted material for many of his reports.