Dean Baquet

Dean Baquet is an American journalist who is best known as the first black American to serve as the executive editor of the leading American daily ‘The New York Times.’ Born and raised in Louisiana, Dean graduated from the ‘St. Augustine High School’ and later studied English literature at ‘Columbia University.’ He later dropped out to pursue a career in journalism and began working as a reporter for a local New Orleans news publication named ‘The Times-Picayune.’ In the 1980s, he emerged as a big name in journalism when he won the ‘Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism’ while working at the ‘Chicago Tribune.’ He earned the honor after he exposed the corruption in the ‘Chicago City Council.’ Following this breakthrough, he continued working with esteemed news publications such as the ‘Los Angeles Times,’ a company he joined in 2000 as a managing editor. He was later promoted to the position of the chief editor of the newspaper. In 2007, he began working with ‘The New York Times’ yet again and served as the managing editor. In 2014, he was promoted to the position of the executive editor of the newspaper. Since 2003, he has also been a board member of the ‘Committee to Protect Journalists.’