.nytimes has, in many ways, flourished under Dean Baquet, its executive editor since 2014. It has also dealt with its share of controversy. In a new interview, Baquet reflects on a storied career.
for the work they did getting the story about the air strikes. That was the kind of story I would have loved. I did a lot of national-security stories. In moments like that, when I’m in those discussions with them, yes, there’s a part of you that rises up and says, “Would you guys get away and let me have this story and give me your stuff?” Sure, yes, I’m jealous.
I was good at sitting in courthouses for hours, reading everything and finding one thing. I was good at going to the story, and I was always pretty good at thinking—keeping my eye on the ball of the story and not getting distracted.
Have you felt culturally or generationally out of step in the past couple of years with your vocal newsroom? But let me back up a little bit. Has the world changed? I don’t know. I grew up in the South in the nineteen-sixties, where it was O.K. to run a racist political campaign. My South was a pretty rugged place in terms of race. So, yes, the world has changed, but it doesn’t look that different from the South I grew up in, to be perfectly frank.
I’m not saying be empathetic to the guy, but explain it. What’s better journalism? That portrait of Philadelphia, Mississippi, that helped you, as a reader—I’m being empathetic to the reader, not empathetic to the subjects—understand that town better? Or do you think you understand that town better if you just read some screed about Philadelphia, Mississippi?
Yes. And readers of Southern papers didn’t always want to read about their neighbors and their attitudes, too. Part of journalism has always been giving readers a mix of the things that they need to know to understand the world, and not being totally swayed by what they tell you they want. Because sometimes people don’t fully know what they want.The difference between newspapers of my era and newspapers today is we’re trying to make your vegetables really good.
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