Romenesko Memos | Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times DC bureau chief
Doyle McManus writes to his staff: "How will we compete against a NY Times bureau led by someone as formidable as
Dean [Baquet]? To be high-minded about it, a good, competitive NY Times bureau is good for journalism as a whole. To be low-minded about it, well, it will still be the NY Times, still encumbered by that paper's institutional weaknesses and still, even with Dean on the premises, an often unpleasant place to work. To be more concise about it -- and to quote one of our most incisive newsroom philosophers -- we'll just go out and kick their ass." || Read
James Rainey's
story on Baquet's new job.
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Reporters in NYT's DC bureau pleased to have Baquet as boss (E&P)