A former managing editor of The New York Times will headline this year’s Media and the Law Seminar.

Gerald Boyd, who resigned his post in May 2003 after the newspaper disclosed fraud by reporter Jayson Blair, will speak during the seminar April 30 at the Fairmont Hotel, 401 Ward Parkway in Kansas City, Mo.

Topics for the seminar will include reporter liability in fabrication or plagiarism; how attorneys, editors and producers can address potential fabrication or plagiarism; the embedding of reporters in Iraq; and insurance coverage issues related to reporter misconduct.

The seminar is sponsored by Kansas University, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Assn.’s Media Law Committee, and the American Bar Assn.’s TIPS Media Law Committee.

To register, contact KU Continuing Education at 864-5823, or visit www.kuce.org/programs/ml.