Dean Baquet

Dean P. Baquet (pronounced bah-KAY) (born September 21, 1956) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist. He has been the executive editor of The New York Times since May 14, 2014, reporting directly to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., the chairman and publisher. Between 2011 and 2014 Baquet was managing editor under the previous executive editor Jill Abramson. He is the first black American to serve as executive editor, the highest-ranking position in The New York Times newsroom. In 1988, Baquet won the Pulitzer Prize for leading a team of reporters that included Bill Gaines and Ann Marie Lipinski at the Chicago Tribune who exposed corruption on the Chicago City Council. 2Early life and education Baquet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of well-known New Orleans restaurateur Edward Baquet. He is a member of a prominent New Orleans Creole family. Baquet graduated from St. Augustine High School in 1974. Baquet studied English at Columbia University from 1974 to 1978; however, he dropped out to pursue a career in journalis