“We Have to Be Ready”: Steady and Calm Joe Kahn Takes Charge of the Turbulent Times

Today, June 14, 2022, is the day that gossipy media types have been breathlessly gabbing about and speculating over for the better part of the past few years: Joe Kahn’s first day as executive editor of The New York Times. In an April announcement that surprised absolutely no one, publisher A.G. Sulzberger confirmed what Times Kremlinologists had long expected—that Kahn, a mild, Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prize–winning newsman who rose up from the foreign reporting corps to the paper of record’s top management ranks, would succeed Dean Baquet to become the institution’s next newsroom leader. I caught up with Kahn in a… Read Full Article