Dean Baquet Carries the Torch of Previous NYT Zenger Award Winners
Times executive editor is the 2017 recipient of the University of Arizona prize
When New York Times Washington bureau chief James Reston accepted the 1963 Zenger Award for Press Freedom from the University of Arizona, he told the crowd: “I happen to think that powerful centralized government in Washington is here to stay, no matter who is in the White House. But the greater the power there, the greater the need for critical press, and the greater the need for hard skeptical reporting.”
That is essentially the mandate pursued by the sixth NYT winner of this award, executive editor Dean Baquet, who will accept the prize Oct.
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