Reporter committed journalistic fraud

A NEW YORK TIMES reporter “committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud,” including stealing material from other newspapers, inventing quotes and lying about his whereabouts, according to an investigation conducted by the paper.

The review found problems in at least 36 of the 73 articles written by Jayson Blair from the time he began receiving national reporting assignments in late October to his May 1 resignation.

The Times described the episode as “a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper.”