NYABJ
15th Annual Scholarship and Awards Dinner
Honorary Co-Chair
GERALD M. BOYD
The New York Times

Gerald Boyd was named managing editor of The New York Times in September 2001, the year he also won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for the highly regarded series, “How Race Is Lived In America.”

Boyd was co-editor of that series, published in 2000. It was his second Pulitzer, with the first awarded for spot news coverage of the World Trade Center bombing in 1994, more than two decades after the Times’ last Pulitzer for local reporting. The series also earned Boyd the distinction as 2001 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

Boyd was the newspaper's metropolitan editor then. He also has been deputy managing editor, assistant managing editor, senior editor, an editor in the Washington bureau and White House correspondent for the newspaper, which he joined in 1983.

He was hired at the Times after spending 10 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he started as a copyboy and later covered City Hall, Congress and the White House.

The Post-Dispatch had awarded Boyd a scholarship to attend the University of Missouri where he graduated in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. In 1977, he founded the St. Louis Association of Black Journalists and served as its first president. One of the group’s projects, which he initiated, was a seven-week journalism workshop for high school students, the first of its kind hosted by a NABJ chapter.

In addition, Boyd has been an instructor at Howard University and at the University of Missouri’s journalism workshop for minority students.

In 1980, he became the youngest journalist at that time to be named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.