Dean Baquet: 'I Never Said to Anyone It's Me or Jill'

We hope you’re not tired of the Jill Abramson/New York Times drama, because it appears that Dean Baquet — the new executive editor of the paper — isn’t. He gave a long interview with NPR, and touched on several storylines that have been floating around.

Baquet denied the rumor that he had told Arthur Sulzberger Jr. he needed to fire Abramson or he would walk. “I never said to anyone it’s me or Jill,” he told NPR. “I think that’s a simplistic calculation.