Biography
Dean Baquet is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Executive Editor of
The New York Times, andthe first African-American to be named to that position
. Previously, he was the managing editor of
The Los Angeles Times and reporter for
The Chicago Tribune and
The Times Picayune in New Orleans. While at
The Chicago Tribune, Baquet served as associate metropolitan editor for investigations and was chief
investigative reporter, covering corruption in politics and in the garbage-hauling
industry. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in March 1988
when he led a team documenting corruption in the Chicago City Council. Stony Brook
University’s School of Journalism hosted him in February 2017 for the My Life As Speaker
Series. Baquet spoke about covering the Trump White House, the future of journalism
and fake news.
