Dean Baquet Biography
Dean Baquet is an American journalist who was named executive editor of The New York Times in May 2014. Mr. Baquet is the highest-ranking member of The New York Times newsroom, overseeing The New York Times news report in all of its forms.
How old is Dean Baquet? – Age
He is 64 years old as of 21 September 2020. He was born Dean P. Baquet in 1956 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Dean Baquet Family
He is the fourth of five sons of restaurateur Edward Baquet of New Orleans.
Dean Baquet Wife
Baquet married writer Dylan Landis in September 1986. They are residents of Greenwich Village.
Dean Baquet Salary – Net Worth
He earns a salary of $87,421 per year. His net worth is not disclosed.
Dean Baquet Awards
In 1988, Baquet won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Peter Lisagor Award for investigative reporting for his coverage of corruption in the Chicago City Council. In 1987, 1988, and 1989, he received the Chicago Tribune’s William H. Jones Award for Investigative Reporting. He received an honorary degree from Loyola University New Orleans in 2013, was a guest speaker at Columbia College Class Day in 2016 and received the Freedom of the Press Award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in 2018.
Baquet received the Larry Foster Award for Integrity in Public Communication at the Arthur W. Page Center Awards in 2019, as part of the Norman C. Francis Leadership Institute N. Baquet received the Larry Foster Award for Integrity in Public Communication at the Arthur W. Page Center Awards in 2019, as well as the Norman C. Francis Leadership Institute National Leadership Award for Excellence, and was named one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “35 most powerful people in New York media.” In 2020, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Xavier University of Louisiana.
Dean Baquet Career
Baquet began his career as a reporter for the New Orleans States-Item, which later merged with The Times-Picayune. After six years at the Times-Picayune, he moved to the Chicago Tribune in 1984, where he won the Pulitzer Prize, before joining The New York Times as an investigative reporter on the Metro desk in April 1990. In May 1992, he was hired as the business desk’s special projects editor. He held the same title in January 1994, but he worked out of the executive editor’s office. He was appointed national editor in 1996.
In 2000, he became managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, serving as editor John Carroll’s “right-hand man.”After Carroll resigned in 2005 due to disagreements with the Tribune Company, which had purchased the Los Angeles Times from the Chandler family in 2000, Baquet took over as chief editor. He was the newspaper’s first African-American executive editor. Baquet was fired in 2006 after publicly opposing plans to reduce newsroom staffing.
Baquet returned to The New York Times as the Washington bureau chief two months later. He was promoted to executive editor on May 14, 2014, after serving as managing editor under executive editor Jill Abramson since September 2011. Baquet has prioritized hiring minority reporters and editors, claiming that his efforts to diversify the newsroom have been “intense and persistent.” Baquet has made hiring people of color a priority, calling his efforts to diversify the newsroom “intense and persistent.
Baquet, who has been personally attacked by US President Donald Trump, has spoken out against the president’s anti-press rhetoric, telling The Guardian that Trump has put “his reporters’ lives in danger.” Baquet previously served on the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Board of Directors.