Ex-Reporter Trades Scandal for Coaching

McLEAN, Va. ? Jayson Blair knows his new profession ? life coach ? smacks some people in the face like a bad punchline.

“People say, ‘Wait a minute. You’re a life coach?’ That makes no sense,’” says Blair, the ex-journalist best known for foisting plagiarism and fabrications into the pages of The New York Times. “Then they think about my life experiences and what I’ve been through and they say ‘Wait a minute. It does make sense.’”