Ousted LAT Editor To NYT?

That’s what Dean Baquet‘s “confidantes” say, according to today’s Los Angeles Times. Baquet, along with publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson, became the poster guys for the newspaper industry’s burgeoning newsroom-boardroom struggle when the pair opposed editorial cuts floated by the paper’s Chicago owners. Rumors have Baquet potentially returning to the LAT, althought “prospects of a return are fading.”