Complex sentence: Howell Hiram Raines (born February 5,1943 in Birmingham, Alabama) was Executive Editor of the "New York Times" from 2001 until he left in 2003 in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.
Split into simpler sentences: Howell Hiram Raines (born February 5,1943 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American journalist. He was Executive Editor of the "New York Times" from 2001 until he left in 2003 in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.