New York Times names Joseph Kahn as executive editor

Joseph Kahn’s promotion from managing editor was widely expected. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP

The New York Times has named Joseph Kahn as its new executive editor, the paper’s top editorial job.

Kahn will replace Dean Baquet, the New York Times’s first Black executive editor, who has led the paper since 2014 but who hit the company’s mandatory retirement age, 65, this year.