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:: 11.09.2005 ::

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Judith Miller to leave New York Times

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Times reporter Judith Miller, a journalist at the center of the CIA leak controversy that led to the indictment of a White House aide, will leave the paper, the New York Times said on Wednesday.

ALSO
Reporter Judith Miller to leave New York Times
Reuters.uk

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New York Magazine wrote in June 2004 that Miller produced "stunning stories about Saddam Hussein's ambition and capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction, based largely on information provided by Chalabi and his allies -- almost all of which have turned out to be stunningly inaccurate."

The flap over Miller's reportage was another blow to the storied paper's reputation. The Times, which prides itself on being America's paper of record, is still trying to restore credibility lost after former reporter Jayson Blair was found to have fabricated and plagiarised dozens of news stories, which The Times detailed in a nearly 14,000-word article.

That scandal led to the exit of two top editors, Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd in 2003.

It also led to the establishment of a public editor to critique Times coverage, and in coming months Miller's reporting of the run-up to the Iraqi war came under fire.

"It's a calamity," Michael Wolff, media critic for Vanity Fair Magazine, told Reuters. "They are going from one calamity to another, like a drunken bunch lurching this way and lurching that way." Wolff characterised the Times as having a "leadership problem of massive proportion."

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Times Reporter Agrees to Leave the Paper
New York Times

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