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05/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Times accepts Pulitzer-winning reporter's resignation"

BUT WHO ACTUALLY WROTE HIS RESIGNATION LETTER?: Rick Bragg has resigned as a New York Times reporter following the little brouhaha over filing a story taken from a freelancer's notes but with only his byline.

Bragg, a national correspondent for the newspaper and best-selling author of two memoirs, told CNN Tuesday that he would resign but said he had done nothing wrong and that he followed Times policy of using the work of freelancers without giving them credit.

Times spokeswoman Catherine J. Mathis told CNN: "Under The Times' dateline and byline policies, the journalist who did the principal reporting should have received a byline for his contribution to the story."

Bragg said the Blair scandal has led to a "noxious atmosphere" at the paper.

"I don't want to let this atmosphere, this kind of noxious atmosphere, become a prison for me," said Bragg, who has a contract to write two more books.

Well, as long as he did nothing wrong...

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This Bragg chap sounds like a whiner. In my local paper, if a reporter uses AP stuff both bylines appear. That's how it should be. It sounds like he wanted to hog the spotlight.

Posted by IZZY @ 05/29/2003 11:53 AM EST