Dean Baquet

Dean Baquet leads The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. He served as executive editor of The New York Times from May 2014 to June 2022 and was previously the managing editor. Baquet was the Washington bureau chief from March 2007 to September 2011. He rejoined The Times after working at the Los Angeles Times, where he was editor since 2005 and managing editor since 2000. Earlier, he was the National editor of The New York Times starting in July 1995 and deputy Metro editor from May 1995. Baquet joined The Times in April 1990 as a Metro reporter, became special projects editor for the business desk in May 1992, and held the same title in the executive editor’s office in January 1994. Before The Times, he reported for the Chicago Tribune from December 1984 to March 1990, serving as associate Metro editor for investigations and chief investigative reporter. He won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in March 1988. Baquet studied English at Columbia University from 1974 to 1978.