Howell Raines

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Howell Hiram Raines ?ha??l re?ns born February 5 1943 is an American journalist editor and writer He was executive editor of The New York Times from 2001 until he left in 2003 in the wake of the scandal related to reporting by Jayson Blair In 2008 Raines became a contributing editor for CondΓ© Nast Portfolio writing the magazines media column After beginning his journalism career working for Southern newspapers he joined The Times in 1978 as a national correspondent based in Atlanta His positions included political correspondent and bureau chief in Atlanta and Washington DC before joining the New York City staff in 1993 Raines has also published a novel two memoirs an oral history of the civil rights movement and a history of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War and were scrubbed from the history books

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D.O.B: 1943-02-05
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Profession: Acting

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