Jayson Blair, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jayson Blair

journalist

Date of Birth: 23-Mar-1976

Place of Birth: Columbia, Maryland, United States

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jayson Thomas Blair (born March 23, 1976) is a former American journalist who worked for The New York Times.
He resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of fabrication and plagiarism in his stories. Blair published a memoir of this period, entitled Burning Down My Masters' House (2004), recounting his career, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder after his resignation, and his view of race relations at the newspaper.
He later established a support group for people with bipolar disorder and became a life coach.