The Doris Kearns Goodwin Award Winner?

How can you write for a living and do something like this? It is insane.

Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who copied portions of a Texas newspaper's story about a woman whose son died during the war in Iraq, resigned under pressure yesterday.

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Raines said Blair's story last Saturday "incorporated passages from another newspaper's coverage of the family, in Los Fresnos, Tex., and we have been unable to determine what original reporting he did to produce it."

The national staff reporter quit during a Times investigation of whether he had plagiarized quotations and detailed descriptions from the San Antonio Express-News in writing about Juanita Anguiano. The similarities were so great that it was not clear whether Blair had actually interviewed Anguiano.

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He has been involved in a number of controversies and the paper has run 50 corrections on his stories.

Source: Reporter Resigns Over Copied Story (washingtonpost.com)

Hat Tip: The Tony Kornheiser Show.