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September 9, 2018
Executive Editors of the Washington Post and the New York Times to accept 2018 National Press Club Fourth Estate Award at November 29 Gala
Photo: UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, addresses the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. 16 April 2015. Washington, DC, United States. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe. [File Photo].
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2018 — Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron and New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet will receive the National Press Club’s most esteemed prize, the Fourth Estate Award, at a Press Club gala in their honor on November 29, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
Baquet and Baron are the 46th recipients of the award, which recognizes journalists who have made significant contributions to the field.
“As the editors of two of our most influential newspapers, Marty Baron and Dean Baquet have risen to the challenges of our times and emerged as thought-provoking and pathfinding leaders, steadfast in their commitment to excellence in journalism and the defense of a free press,” said National Press Club President Andrea Edney.
The Fourth Estate Award is the top honor bestowed on a journalist by the National Press Club Board of Governors. Previous winners include Wolf Blitzer, Gwen Ifill, Andrea Mitchell, Bob Woodward, Jim Lehrer, Walter Cronkite, Christiane Amanpour, and David Broder.
“At a time when the governments accuse the press of being ‘the enemy of the people,’ ‘the opposition party,’ and the peddlers of ‘fake news,’” Edney said, “two of the nation’s most venerable news organizations, the New York Times and the Washington Post, continue to rise above the vitriol, producing award-winning reporting and garnering record numbers of digital subscriptions.”
• Martin “Marty” Baron:
Martin “Marty” Baron became the executive editor of the Washington Post in 2013. Under his leadership, The Post has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, winning four times for national reporting, once for explanatory reporting, once for investigative reporting and once for public service. Baron received the Pulitzer Prize for public service in recognition of revelations of secret surveillance by the National Security Agency. Previously, Baron served as editor of the Boston Globe. During his 11 years there, the Globe won six Pulitzer Prizes - for public service, explanatory journalism, national reporting, and criticism. Before the Globe, Baron held top editing positions at the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald, where his journalism career began back in 1976.
• Dean Baquet:
Dean Baquet was named Executive Editor of the New York Times in 2014, having served as the paper’s managing editor and Washington bureau chief. Baquet first joined The Times in 1990 as a Metro Reporter, and became the paper’s National editor in 1995 before taking a seven-year hiatus from The Times to serve as managing editor, and later Editor-in-Chief, of the Los Angeles Times. After graduating from Columbia University in 1978 with a major in English, Baquet started reporting for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. He was at the Times-Picayune for nearly seven years before he became the Chicago Tribune’s associate Metro editor for investigations and chief investigative reporter, covering corruption in politics. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting in March 1988 for documenting corruption in the Chicago City Council and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 in the investigative reporting category.
Founded in 1908, the National Press Club, located in Washington, D.C., is the world’s leading professional organization for journalists. It has more than 3,100 members worldwide.
Source: National Press Club
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