Journalism Quotes by Dean Baquet

I grew up in the traditional American newspaper world with a morning paper and an afternoon paper competing with each other beat by beat…

— Dean Baquet

The New York Times is and has always been a digital leader. The report only cited some areas where we fell down.

— Dean Baquet

I know this is going to get me in trouble, but I'll say it: The whole notion that I am supposed to constantly tweet…

— Dean Baquet

The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish part of…

— Dean Baquet

The mainstream press was not aggressive enough after 9/11, was not aggressive enough in asking questions about a decision to go to war in…

— Dean Baquet

My job is to cover the hell out of the story, very aggressively. The real place to be courageous if you're a news organization…

— Dean Baquet

The fact that Edward Snowden didn't approach the New York Times hurt a lot. It meant two things. Morally, it meant that somebody with…

— Dean Baquet

You're always going to have more traffic if you're a free website. But we've always admitted that the New York Times was behind other…

— Dean Baquet

We, in the New York Times, have not yet figured out how to grow our international readership. We started a website in China, which…

— Dean Baquet

I also don't think all of the revenue will come from digital subscriptions. We have in the New York Times a mix of revenue…

— Dean Baquet

I always thought that digital first was a simplistic notion, and I am not even sure quite what it means. It should be stories…

— Dean Baquet

Everyone has a story if you just listen and shut up.

— Dean Baquet

It used to be, if you were a reporter, you wrote a story and then you moved on to the next one. We were…

— Dean Baquet