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Dean Baquet

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Born September 21, 1956 · New Orleans

Biography

Dean P. Baquet is an American journalist. He served as executive editor 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 led the newsroom.

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Awards & recognition

  • Walter Cronkite Award — Excellence in Journalism · 2020
  • Journalist of the Year · 2007
  • Pulitzer Prize — Investigative Reporting · 1988

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