Dean P. Baquet is an American journalist, who on June 2, 2011 was named to become managing editor for news operations of The New York Times

The New York Times

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 effective September 6.

As of March 5, 2007, he was on the masthead of The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

as an assistant managing editor and Washington

Washington, D.C.

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 bureau chief. Baquet was previously managing editor under John Carroll

John Carroll (journalist)

John S. Carroll was the editor of the Los Angeles Times and The Baltimore Sun. During his tenure the Times won 13 Pulitzer Prizes.-Early career:...

, then editor, of the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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. From 1995 to 2000, he was national editor of The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

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He is on the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists

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Notable stories

During his time with the LA Times, Baquet was the editor behind a story published a few days before the 2003 California recall election which initiated the Gropegate controversy, raising concerns about gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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's sexual misconduct. NSA Wiretap story is a notable story killed by Baquet as the LA Time editor in 2006.

While with the New York Times, Baquet was the editor for a story initiating the John McCain lobbyist controversy during McCain's campaign in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries

Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008

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, in which an improper relationship was alleged between McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman.

Awards

•Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 for investigative reporting in 1988 for a piece on the corruption in the Chicago City Council.

•Peter Lisagor Award for investigative reporting, 1988

•William H. Jones Award (Chicago Tribune) for Investigative Reporting, 1987, 1988 and 1989