Pioneering News Editor, Gerald Boyd, Dies
Gerald Boyd, the first black metropolitan editor and managing editor of the New York Times, who made headlines for his 2003 resignation stemming from the Jayson Blair scandal, died yesterday in his Harlem home after battling lung cancer. He was 56.
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