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National Judges: Dean Baquet
Dean Baquet  Dean Baquet took over as managing editor of The New York Times in September 2011 replacing Jill Abramson who became editor of the paper. Baquet had been Washington bureau chief for the Times for the last four years, rejoining the paper after seven years at the Los Angeles Times. During his tenure as the managing editor and editor of the Los Angeles paper, it earned 14 Pulitzer Prizes; the most successful run it its 123-year history. Baquet first joined The New York Times in 1990 as a metropolitan reporter. In 1992 he became special projects editor for the business desk and in 1994 he held the same title but operated out of the executive editor’s office. His early career included stints as chief investigative reporter and associate metropolitan editor at the Chicago Tribune, where he won a Pulitzer Prize with two other reporters documenting corruption in the Chicago City Council. He had started out covering police at New Orleans’ now-defunct States-Item, then moved to The Times-Picayune. He attended St. Augustine High School and his family ran Eddie’s, a Creole restaurant in the city’s Seventh Ward. Baquet has received the Peter Lisagor Award for Investigative Reporting, 1988; the Chicago Tribune’s William H. Jones Award for Investigative Reporting, 1987, 1988 and 1989, and numerous local and regional awards. |
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