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05/24/2003 Archived Entry: "Rick Bragg's "Dateline Toe-Touch""

MORE NY TIMES FUN: Jack Shafer reports on the latest integrity challenged New York Times reporter to be unmasked. This time it's Rick Bragg.

An editor's note in today's New York Times gently chastises Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Bragg for what would be a firing offense at many newspapers, especially in the post-Jayson Blair era. On June 15, 2002, the Times ran a Page One article datelined Apalachicola, Fla., about the oystermen of the Gulf Coast. The byline credit went to Bragg, but that was wrong, the Times note explains. "[W]hile Mr. Bragg indeed visited Apalachicola briefly and wrote the article, the interviewing and reporting on the scene were done by a freelance journalist, J. Wes Yoder."

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