Dean Baquet
Executive Editor, Local Investigations Fellowship, The New York Times
Dean Baquet is executive editor of the Local Investigations Fellowship at The New York Times, a one-year investigative reporting fellowship to develop reporters doing accountability journalism at the local level. He was previously executive editor of the Times, from 2014 to 2022, a period of audience and subscriber growth and 18 Pulitzer Prizes. Before that, Baquet was managing editor and Washington bureau chief for the paper; he joined the Times in 1990 as a metro reporter and became a special projects editor, metro editor and national editor. Baquet left to work at the Los Angeles Times for a period in the 2000s, as managing editor and then editor. Earlier in his career he reported for the Chicago Tribune, earning a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, and for The Times-Picayune.
Previously
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