Fred Bayles
American journalist and professor
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Fred Bayles is an American professor emeritus of journalism and former journalist.[1][2] After thirty years as a journalist, he joined the faculty at Boston University in 2004.[3][2] He was a national correspondent for the Associated Press, where he worked for 20 years, before joining USA Today in 1997.[4][2] During his career as a reporter, he covered the Gulf War, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.[5] He is the author of Field Guide to Covering Local News: How to Report on Cops, Courts, Schools, Emergencies and Government.[1]
While at the AP in 1983, Bayles unwittingly wrote a news hoax story about the Roman origins of April Fools' Day, after interviewing Joseph Boskin, a history professor at Boston University.[6][3]