CORRECTING THE RECORD; The Articles; Witnesses and Documents Unveil Deceptions In a Reporter's Work On Sunday, May 11, 2003, The Times published a two-full-page accounting of misrepresentations and plagiarism by Jayson Blair, who resigned on May 1 as a reporter.

NATIONAL 19-28 Times Writer Who Resigned Leaves a Trail of Deception Jayson Blair, who recently resigned as a reporter for The New York Times, committed frequent acts of plagiarism and fabrication while covering news events in recent months, a Times inquiry found.

Ten days ago, Jayson Blair resigned as a reporter for The New York Times after the discovery that he had plagiarized parts of an article on April 26 about the Texas family of a soldier missing in Iraq.

On Thursday, June 12, 2003, The Times published an Editors' Note stating that ten additional articles by Jayson Blair, who resigned on May 1 as a reporter, were found to include misrepresentations or possible borrowed passages.

The co-owner of the West Warwick nightclub where 100 people died after a fire in February has resigned as a reporter for a Providence television station, the station said.