Journalist. New York Times Managing Editor. He entered journalism after graduating from the University of Missouri. After working as the White House correspondent for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Boyd joined the Times in 1983 and rose through the ranks, including assignments as metropolitan editor and managing editor. He oversaw the 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning series, “How Race is Lived in America.” Boyd became managing editor on September 5, 2001 and with executive editor Howell Raines led the paper’s coverage of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, with the Times winning a Pulitzer Prize for its work. His tenure came to an abrupt end with the Jayson Blair scandal when an investigation suggested that Boyd and Raines had failed to address warning signs of Blair’s repeated instances of plagiarism and fabrication. Raines and Boyd resigned in 2003. After leaving the Times Boyd wrote a weekly column for the Universal Press Syndicate, taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and worked on a memoir.  He died of complications from lung and brain cancer. (bio by: Bill McKern)