Originally published in 2003
Gerald Boyd to Speak at NABJ Convention
Gerald Boyd, former managing editor of The New York Times, is scheduled to speak Thursday at the convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in Dallas. It will be his first public comment since resigning from the newspaper June 5, NABJ announces.
“A Conversation with Gerald Boyd? is to take place at the Landmark Ballroom in the Hyatt Regency Hotel Dallas at 2 p.m. As reported July 28, NABJ previously had no plans to include Boyd in the convention program, believing that Boyd probably would not be at the conference, convention chair Mike Woolfolk said then.
A plenary session on Friday is to examine the effects of the Jayson Blair scandal at the Times, which set in motion the events that forced Boyd’s resignation. Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is to participate, along with P. Anthony Ridder, chairman and CEO of Knight Ridder, Inc. and Paula Madison, president and general manager of KNBC-TV Los Angeles.
