Alessandra Stanley Switches NYT Channels

Dean Baquet points his chief TV critic in the Robin Leach direction.

AlessandraStanleyPicIf Forbes ever chooses to compile a list of the world’s richest newspaper beats, New York Times chief TV critic Alessandra Stanley will have no trouble finding space on it. After 12 years spent dissecting the most populist of mediums, the NYT vet is moving to a much more rarefied beat.

From today’s announcement by executive editor Dean Baquet:

As part of The Times’s deepening focus on economic inequality in America, she will be creating a new beat: an interdisciplinary look at the way the richest of the rich – the top one percent of the one percent – are influencing, indeed rewiring, the nation’s institutions, including universities, philanthropies, museums, sports franchises and, of course, political parties and government.

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