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Regular Session, 2014 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 143
BY SENATOR MURRAY
A RESOLUTION
To commend Dean Baquet on being named executive editor of the New York Times
newspaper.
WHEREAS, Dean Baquet, age fifty-seven, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, will
become the first African-American executive editor at one of the nation's highest profile
newspapers; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Baquet is "a consummate journalist whose reputation as a fierce
advocate for his reporters and editors is well deserved"; and
WHEREAS, he is an enthusiastic supporter of the push towards further creativity in
the approach of the digital expression of journalism; and
WHEREAS, he began his newspaper career in New Orleans at The States-Item and
later worked for The Times-Picayune; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Baquet has been the managing editor for news at the New York
Times since September 2011, and also served as editor of the Los Angeles Times; and
WHEREAS, as a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, Baquet won the Pulitzer Prize for
investigative journalism in 1988 for coverage of Chicago City Council corruption; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Baquet made national headlines when he landed the Los Angeles
position as the first African-American editor of a major newspaper.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend and congratulate Dean Baquet on being named executive editor of
the New York Times.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Dean Baquet.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE