Dean Baquet

Dean Baquet
Baquet in 2018
Born (1956-09-21) September 21, 1956 (age 68)
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
EducationColumbia University (did not graduate)
Occupation(s)Journalist; Editor
Notable credit(s)The New York Times; Los Angeles Times; Chicago Tribune
Spouse
Dylan Landis
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(m. 1986)​
Children1
FatherEdward Baquet

Dean P. Baquet[1] (/bæˈkeɪ/;[2] born September 21, 1956[3]) is an American journalist. He served as the editor-in-chief of The New York Times from May 2014 to June 2022.[4] Between 2011 and 2014 Baquet was managing editor under the previous executive editor Jill Abramson.[5] He is the first Black person to have been executive editor.[1]

A native of New Orleans, Baquet began his career in journalism there in the 1970s before moving to the Chicago Tribune in the 1980s. He joined The New York Times metro desk in 1990 and in 1995 became that paper's national editor,[6] after having served as deputy metro editor. In 2000, he left to become managing editor, and later executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. He returned to The New York Times as Washington bureau chief in 2007, after he refused to implement management-desired news room budget cuts at the Los Angeles paper.

In 1988, Baquet shared a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism, leading a team of reporters that included William Gaines and Ann Marie Lipinski at the Chicago Tribune, for "their detailed reporting on the self-interest and waste" that plagued the Chicago City Council.[7]

  1. ^ a b Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. (2012). "2005". Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events (3 ed.). Visible Ink Press. ISBN 978-1578593699. The first black journalist to lead a top newspaper in the United States was Dean P. Baquet...
  2. ^ Remnick, David, in 'The New York Times' Journalists Maggie Haberman and Dean Baquet on Covering Trump. The New Yorker. June 14, 2018. Event occurs at 00:15. Archived from the original on June 16, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2020.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich; Fischer, Erika J., eds. (1989). Local Reporting 1947-1987 (Pulitzer Prize Archive Part A) (2011 ed.). De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3598301735.
  4. ^ "Outgoing Times editor to lead fellowship for local probes". The Seattle Times. April 26, 2022. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
  5. ^ "Dean Baquet". The New York Times Company. October 24, 2018. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  6. ^ "Dean Baquet". The New York Times Company. October 24, 2018. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference PulitzerOrg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).