Dean Baquet, outgoing executive editor of The New York Times, will lead a fellowship program focusing on local investigative journalism projects at the Times. Details on how many journalism fellows will be part of the program have yet to be announced. The fellowship will help fill a need at a time when local and state journalism is declining for economic reasons. A.G. Sulzberger, the Times' chairman and publisher, called it a “national tragedy.”“I care deeply about investigative reporting,” Baquet said. “And I fear a future where there's less of it as more and more news organizations have to cut back.

Source: The Times April 26, 2022 20:36 UTC