Joseph Kahn To Take Over As New York Times Executive Editor

The New York Times has tapped its former managing editor to lead the paper once Executive Editor Dean Baquet’s tenure runs out in June.

The news was announced Tuesday by A.G. Sulzberger, the newspaper’s publisher, who called incoming Executive Editor Joseph Kahn “a brilliant journalist and a brave and principled leader.”

“Joe brings impeccable news judgment, a sophisticated understanding of the forces shaping the world and a long track record of helping journalists produce their most ambitious and courageous work,” Sulzberger said in a memo.

Khan, 57, previously led the paper’s international desk and more recently served as managing editor.

Kahn graduated from Harvard University in 1987, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in American history and served as president of The Harvard Crimson.

In 1990, he received a master’s degree in East Asian studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Kahn joined the Times in January 1998, after four years as China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Before the Journal, he was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News, where he was part of a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for international reporting for their stories on violence against women around the world.

In 2006, Kahn and Jim Yardley won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. for the Times covering rule of law in China.

Kahn was assistant masthead editor for International at The Times from 2014 to September 2016.