Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, The New York Times (Code Conference 2017)

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this special bonus episode from the 2017 Code Conference, New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about how the newspaper's journalists are covering President Donald Trump and why there are so many leaks coming out of Washington at the moment. Baquet acknowledges that many journalists, including him, misunderstood the "anger and anti-elitism" that elevated Trump, and defends the hiring of climate skeptic Bret Stephens as an opinion columnist, saying people on the left should be willing to hear him out. He also warns that local news is "verging on a crisis" and smaller outlets around the country may have to be rescued by technologists and philanthropists. Baquet says one of his other goals is figuring out how to update the "voice" of the Times to match the way people talk online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Recode Media listeners, we've got a bonus episode for you today. It's free, like every episode of Recode Media.
0:07.0	This one's an interview I just did at the Code Conference. If you like it, good news. We have a lot more of them over at Recode Replay. You can go subscribe and hear all of those as well. This one's an interview with Dean McKay.
0:17.1	He's the executive editor of the New York Times.
0:19.1	It was a lot of fun to talk with him, timely.
0:21.1	It's a really thoughtful guy.
0:22.1	I appreciate this one a lot.
0:23.1	I'm going to bring with him, timely.
0:21.2	He's a really thoughtful guy.
0:22.1	I appreciate this one a lot.
0:23.8	I'm going to bring on Dean Bekay.
0:25.6	He's the executive editor of the New York Times.
0:27.3	We are very excited to have him here.
0:29.0	Come on up, Dean.
0:29.4	I like the news.
0:33.5	Thank you.
0:34.5	Thank you.
0:35.6	I like the music. We have good people who do theme music for us. I like the music. Can I keep that theme music? It's all yours, as long as you pay for it. I saw you earlier today. I said we haven't really prepped for this conversation. I don't think we need to. You said, I think you're probably going to ask me about Trump.
0:55.0	I think so.
0:55.8	You've good news judgment.
0:59.8	Prior to the inauguration, there was a lot of conversation in the press about the press,
1:04.5	and there was a lot of worry that the Trump administration,
1:08.0	Trump was in his war footing against the press, and it'd be very
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