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NYT's New Top Editor On Tumultuous Change-Over

Dean Baquet is pictured on Oct. 26, 2006, as he was leaving his job as editor of the Los Angeles Times. (Bill Haber/AP)
Dean Baquet is pictured on Oct. 26, 2006, as he was leaving his job as editor of the Los Angeles Times. (Bill Haber/AP)

In his first interview since taking over as executive editor of The New York Times, Dean Baquet told NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik that his predecessor, Jill Abramson, was fired because of her failed relationship with senior management.

Folkenflik discusses the interview and The New York Times’ new leadership with Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson.

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