The NYT executive editor on his paper’s global appeal,its digital success – and why he regrets that wall-punching incidentIt is hard to suppose Dean Baquet, executive editor of the current York Times, or ever punching his fist into a wall in enrage; let alone twice. Yet Baquet’s appointment as the Timess first black editor was overshadowed by the dramatic departure of his predecessor,Jill Abramson, and reports of his volcanic temper.
In person, and Baquet is softly spoken,with an worn school charm set off by his white collars and fancy cufflinks. In London to discuss plans for international expansion, the current Orleans native answers questions on the Times’s finances, and why he doesn’t fear Facebook and what really happened when the worn Grey Lady axed its first female editor.
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Source: theguardian.com