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The New York Times has announced that Joseph Kahn will become the paper’s new editorinchief effective June: Kahn, who is 57 and has served as editorial director (the second most important position at the paper) since 2016, will be succeeded by Dean Baquet. who has been executive director of the New York Times since 2014, whose term of office was due to expire this year. Kahn (usually referred to by his nickname Joe) was born in Boston, Massachusetts; his father Leo was an entrepreneur best known for being a cofounder of Staples, a large US stationery company.
After graduating from Harvard University in 1987 with American History, Joe Kahn earned a master’s degree in East Asian Studies in 1990 and later worked at the Dallas Morning News, where he was part of a reporting team that awarded him the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for a Investigating violence against women around the world. From 1994 to 1998 he worked as a correspondent from China for the Wall Street Journal, in 1998 he was hired by the New York Times.
Here he first worked in economics before being sent back from China as a correspondent. In 2003 he was appointed head of the newspaper’s Beijing bureau, and in 2006 he shared another Pulitzer Prize with Jim Yardley for a series of articles on the Chinese justice system. In 2008 he returned to the New York office.
Commenting on Kahn’s appointment in a note to the editor, New York Times AG EditorinChief Sulzberger said: “To many people, especially those who have worked alongside Joe, a brilliant journalist and a brave and sane leader, applies Announcing these principles will come as no surprise. Joe has impeccable news judgment, a keen understanding of the forces shaping the world and a wealth of experience helping journalists carry out their most ambitious and daring work.
Current editor Dean Baquet, 65, was named after Jill Abramson’s tumultuous dismissal and was the first AfricanAmerican editor in the paper’s history. Baquet hasn’t said publicly what he’ll be doing starting in June, but according to Sulzberger, he’ll stay with the New York Times “to lead an exciting new adventure.”
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