Dean Baquet
Dean P. Baquet (/bæˈkeɪ/; born September 21, 1956) is an American journalist. He served as the editor-in-chief of The New York Times from May 2014 to June 2022. Between 2011 and 2014 Baquet was managing editor under the previous executive editor Jill Abramson. He is the first Black person to have been executive editor.
Dean Baquet | |
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| Born | September 21, 1956 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University (did not graduate) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist; Editor |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times; Los Angeles Times; Chicago Tribune |
| Spouse |
Dylan Landis (m. 1986) |
| Children | 1 |
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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, 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.