Education
He attended the university and graduated in 1973.
He attended the university and graduated in 1973.
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.