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New York Times Editor Dean Baquet Speaks in Finney

April 14, 2015

Communications Staff

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Photo credit: Dale Preston ’83

Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, answers a student’s question following his convocation speech on Tuesday, March 31, in Finney Chapel. A former reporter for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, the Chicago Tribune, and the editor of the Los Angeles Times, Baquet told the audience an editor’s world is much more confined than a reporter’s, which is one reason he enjoys visiting college campuses.

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