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National Judges: Dean Baquet
Dean Baquet  Dean Baquet became Washington bureau chief for The New York Times in March 2007, rejoining the paper after seven years at the Los Angeles Times. During his tenure as managing editor and editor, the Los Angeles Times earned 14 Pulitzer Prizes; the most successful run it its 123-year history. Mr. 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. Prior to the Times, Baquet’s 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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