The New York Times Company

Admitted fabrication Admission by the journalist or internal inquiry by the outlet

What was published

Family Waits, Now Alone, for a Missing Soldier

Published: April 26, 2003 · The New York Times Company

What proved false

According to this summary, the New York Times investigation uncovered four years of fabrications by Jayson Blair. The newspaper subsequently published an account of his acts of fabrication and plagiarism.

Who established it

The New York Times on 2003
Journalist named by the proof : Jayson Blair

Proof

The New York Timesdiscovered that reporter Jayson Blair had plagiarized a story about an anguished mother of a missing U.S. soldier in Iraq, setting off an investigation that uncovered four years of Blair’s fabrications and deceit.

New York Times Reporter Jayson Blair Is Exposed as a Fraud | Law | Research Starters | EBSCOhost · EBSCO · 2022
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He fabricated comments.

CORRECTING THE RECORD; Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception (Published 2003) · The New York Times · 2003
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In our reporting

Media framing: how the same fact can tell two stories

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