Gerald M. Boyd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGerald M. Boyd
American journalist
Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1950
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 23-Nov-2006
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Gerald M. Boyd
- Gerald Michael Boyd (October 3, 1950 – November 23, 2006) was an American journalist and editor.
- He was the first African-American metropolitan editor and managing editor at The New York Times, after joining the newspaper in 1983 in its Washington, D.C.
- bureau.
- A controversy in 2003 about the reporting of Jayson Blair forced both Boyd and the Executive Editor, Howell Raines, to resign that year.
- Boyd had started his journalism career in 1973 at the St.
- Louis Post-Dispatch, in his hometown city, after graduating from the University of Missouri.
- In 1977 he and a colleague, George Curry, founded the Greater St.
- Louis Association of Black Journalists.
- In addition, they established a program to train black high school students in the business.
- Raines received a Nieman Fellowship in 1979.
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