Even though the far-left New York Times has given a platform to diversity-obsessed woke scolds, the “paper of record” has just tapped Joe Kahn to be its executive editor — a rich, white Harvard grad from an upper-crust family.
Kahn will assume his new position in June and will follow Dean Baquet, the first black executive editor of the New York Times, who led the paper through the Trump years and who helped spark the #MeToo phenomenon with the paper’s expose of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. According to New York Magazine, Kahn will be quite the contrast to Baquet, whose working career began with “mopping the floors of his family’s New Orleans restaurant.” The son of Leo Kahn, founder of the office-supply retail chain Staples, Joe Kahn may actually be the first editor in the paper’s history to have more wealth than the “Sulzberger who owns it,” as noted by reporter Shawn McCreesh.
“Kahn, a fabulously wealthy Bostonian, is, arguably, a throwback to a more patrician leader of the paper,” noted the mag. “On the surface, he seems more akin to Bill Keller, the son of a Chevron CEO, who ran the Times for eight years between Raines and Abramson.”
Joe Kahn is the new, old-school executive editor of the New York Times. But who is he? @ShawnMcCreesh spoke to Kahn, Dean Baquet, and others from inside and outside the newsroom about the changes at the paper of record https://t.co/BCkzFLwbLI
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) April 20, 2022
Former New York Times journalist Gay Talese’s eyes reportedly “grew wide” upon hearing of Joe Kahn’s wealth as he wondered aloud if he is perhaps wealthier than company chairman A.G. Sulzberger. In its profile of Kahn, New York Magazine highlighted his luxurious surroundings, from his Fifth Avenue apartment to his patronage of the Metropolitan Opera:
The apartment building he lives in on lower Fifth Avenue is said to have once been inhabited by Marlon Brando. He and his wife, Shannon, who previously worked for the World Bank, send their two sons to Collegiate.
Kahn is not flashy, but he does have a taste for the finer things. He is a familiar face at opening night of the Metropolitan Opera. He is an oenophile with a particular fondness for Burgundy and is part of a wine consortium that includes the billionaire Joseph Bae.
Kahn was an investor in Monkey Bar, a clubby restaurant owned by Air Mail editor Graydon Carter. “I like Joe immensely,” Carter tells me. “He’s got a quiet wit and intelligence that you might miss on first meeting.” The two men share an architect in Basil Walter.
Aside from his opulent background, the larger (and thoroughly more important) question on everyone’s minds is whether or not Kahn will champion the company’s woke scold minority or usher in a new era of tolerant discourse. While the verdict may remain in doubt on that, several Times staffers expressed optimism that Kahn will strike an even balance.
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