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The Post says that New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. denies that his family made him ask Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd to resign. He had, famously, right after the Jayson Blair scandal emerged, said that he would not accept Raines' and Boyd's resignations. "Towards the end of last week, and even more towards the beginning of this week, it became clear to them, and in turn to me, that the best thing for this paper would be for them to resign," Sulzberger tells Newsweek.

Newsday looks at Joseph Lelyveld's first day on the job as interim executive editor at the Times, which included rallying the troops. He told staffers, "So, let's go to work. Let's really go to work." Which echoes Clyde Haberman's claim that nothing was getting done in the midst of the management chaos.

After all the hubbub about the resignations of New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd, Jayson Blair has been the hot get, since it's widely considered that his behavior caused their downfall. Newsday interviewed Blair in SoHo yesterday and reports that Blair said "he awoke at 11 a.m. Thursday, washed down a mood stabilizer with cranberry juice, then turned on his computer and learned about the resignations through an e-mail from a CNN producer."

Disgraced reporter and Times shake-up catalyst Jayson Blair let CNN know how he felt about Howell Raines' and Gerald Boyd's resignations in an email: "I am sorry to hear that more people have fallen in this sequence of events that I had unleashed. I wish the rolling heads had stopped with mine." Gothamist notes that Blair certainly is a writer in need of a good copy editor.

When the kitchen's too hot, get out: Times executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd resign. Former executive editor Joseph Lelyveld returns as interim executive editor.

The New York TImes Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd answered employee questions at a town hall meeting yesterday, and said he won't quit. The Times' own media reporter, Jacques Steinberg, wasn't allowed to report on it, but we're sure that any Times employee bulletin board is the hot place to go - tips? Newsday says it's tough times for Raines.