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He attended the university and graduated in 1973.
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Gerald Boyd
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He was the first African-American metropolitan editor and managing editor at The New York Times and received a Nieman Fellowship. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing
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Boyd also shared the leadership of The Times following the September 11, 2001 attacks, coverage that earned seven Pulitzer prizes. Boyd and executive editor Howell Raines resigned in June 2003 in the wake of the Jayson Blair controversy surrounding plagiarism and fabrication.
He was succeeded by co-managing editors Jill Abramson and John M. Geddes.
After resigning, Boyd worked as a consultant and kept an office at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Boyd died in Manhattan of complications from lung cancer.
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Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, Boyd won a full scholarship to the University of Missouri, with a guaranteed job to follow at the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch. After joining the New York Times, Boyd led coverage that won three Pulitzer Prizes: In 2002 he won National Association of Black Journalists Journalist of the Year award.
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