In 2001, the writer Michael Finkel was discovered to have created composite characters for a story he had written on the African slave trade, a small scandal that was quickly eclipsed at "The New York Times" by the much larger one involving Jayson Blair. After the September 11 attacks, Moss and the "Times Magazine" created an issue of the magazine called "Remains of the Day" that was published online in its entirety that Friday, the first time the magazine published in digital form before print. Its 2001 story “One Awful Night in Thanh Phong” revealed former senator and one-time presidential candidate Bob Kerrey to have led a particularly brutal attack on a peasant village in Vietnam that one of his fellow team members described in terms that invoked some similarities to the My-Lai massacre. Mr. Kerrey disputed the characterization. The story was nominated that year for a Pulitzer Prize.