Doubling down at the Times  —  Dean Baquet's departure as executive editor of the New York Times has been one of the worst-kept secrets in media.  Baquet turned sixty-five in September—"the traditional age when executive editors at the Times step down," the paper notes in its own coverage …

The Inside Man  —  Joe Kahn is the new, old-school editor of the Times.  But who is he?  —  Abe Rosenthal, the totemic New York Times editor who published the Pentagon Papers, used to say that there was one path to the executive editor's office — over the dead, burned, and maimed bodies of the ten other people who wanted the job.