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Intelligent Times: Dean Baquet and Simon Schama on Trump, Politics and The Future of News

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Dean Baquet, The New York Times' executive editor and the renowned historian Simon Schama examine the role of the media in today’s rapidly shifting political climate.

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Intelligent Times is a live event series collaboration between The New York Times and Intelligence Squared, bringing together leading New York Times journalists and thought leaders to discuss the key issues facing the globe today.

In the era of Brexit and Trump, and Facebook and Twitter, the truth itself often seems under attack. In such a climate, how can journalists continue to hold the powerful to account? In November 2019 Dean Baquet, The New York Times’ executive editor, was joined by historian Sir Simon Schama on the Intelligence Squared stage for an examination of the role of the media in today’s increasingly polarised politics. Baquet is the first African-American editor of the world’s most influential news organisation. Schama, as well as being a celebrated author and television presenter, is a prolific political and social commentator, writing for leading international newspapers and journals.

Baquet took us deep inside the decision-making process at The New York Times at a moment of unprecedented tension between the White House and the American press. How does he make sure his staff adhere to the rules of impartiality when they are themselves the targets of the Trump administration’s attacks? What pressure has the White House brought to bear on reporters and editors? How is The New York Times, and the press in general, coping with that pressure?

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Speakers for the motion

  • Dean Baquet

    Executive editor of The New York Times

  • Sir Simon Schama

    Award-winning historian and broadcaster, whose latest book is Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

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Dean Baquet

Executive editor of The New York Times

Executive editor of The New York Times, a position he assumed in May 2014. He serves in the highest ranked position in The Times’s newsroom and oversees The New York Times news report in all its various forms. Before being named executive editor, Baquet was managing editor of The New York Times. He previously served as Washington bureau chief for the paper from March 2007 to September 2011. Baquet rejoined The New York Times after several years at the Los Angeles Times, where he was editor of the newspaper since 2005, after serving as managing editor since 2000. Baquet was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in March 1988 when he led a team of three in documenting corruption in the Chicago City Council, and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 in the investigative reporting category.

Sir Simon Schama

Award-winning historian and broadcaster, whose latest book is Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and Contributing Editor of the Financial Times. He previously taught at Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard Universities. He is the author of 19 books, including The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Rembrandt's Eyes; A History of Britain trilogy; The American Future: A History, and two volumes of The Story of the Jews. He is the writer-presenter of 60 documentaries on art, history and literature for BBC television including films on Tolstoy, John Donne and Rembrandt as well as multi-part award-winning series including A History of Britain and The Power of Art which won an International Emmy for the film on Bernini.  Most recently his History of Now series aired on BBC2 in November-December 2022.  His art criticism for The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism in 1996 and he won the NCR prize for non-fiction for Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, the W.H. Smith Literary Award for Landscape and Memory, and the National Book Critics Circle prize for non-fiction for Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. He has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award for Literature; the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement; and the Premio Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in historical sciences from the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.  He has curated exhibitions at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, collaborated with and contributed to catalogues for shows by Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, Christo and Sally Mann and most recently worked with Cai Guo-Qiang on his Odyssey and Homecoming Retrospective at the Palace Museum, Beijing. His work has been translated into twenty three languages. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations, his twentieth book, is published in May 2023.  

 

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