L.A Times: Editor Dean P. Baquet
Los Angeles Times Editor John S. Carroll, left, announces his retirement to news staff. Managing Editor Dean P. Baquet, center, will succeed him on Aug. 15. Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson, right, praised Carroll’s leadership, saying, “We are indebted to him for his extraordinary legacy of journalistic excellence and wish him every happiness in the future.”
The Los Angeles Times has announced that Editor John Carroll is retiring, Baquet Named Times Editor as Carroll Retires.
Editor John S. Carroll, who led the Los Angeles Times to 13 Pulitzer Prizes in five years as the newspaper struggled with declining circulation, retired today and will be succeeded by Managing Editor Dean P. Baquet.
Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson announced changes this morning in the newsroom, where a festive mood prevailed. Carroll was greeted with 45 seconds of sustained applause.
Baquet, 48, told staffers in Los Angeles, and via telephone hookup to the newspaper’s national and foreign bureaus, he wants them “to do great stories.”
“I want the Los Angeles Times to be the best newspaper in America,” Baquet said.
You have a long way to go!
Another non-Los Angeles editor from the Tribune Company.
SIGH…… Can Riordan or some syndicate buy the Los Angeles Times and restore its California flavor?
Update #1
Editor and Publisher has ‘L.A. Times’ Editor John Carroll Steps Down, Baquet Chosen as Successor.
The company also announced on Wednesday that as part of the leadership transition, the editorial and opinion page editors will now report directly to the publisher.
The Times has cut positions and delayed editorial initiatives because of revenue shortfalls. In May, the paper reported that average daily circulation for the six-month period ending March 31 declined 6.5 percent, compared with the previous year.
Michael Kinsley, the opinion editor lives in Seattle and has done an abysmal job on editorial content. The new editor should choose a new editorial director and send Kinsley packing.
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