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Managing editor Dean Baquet of the L.A. Times shows up at the top of another ranking of prospective NYT executive editors. This one is in New York magazine, where Carl Swanson rates him ahead of most handicappers' odds-on favorite, Bill Keller. Martin Baron, the LAT's former business editor, gets the same odds as Keller:
Dean Baquet
Former Timesman, now L.A. Times managing editor
The scoop: Well-liked, well-regarded, and black.
The dirt: Heir presumptive in L.A., and unlikely to be let go easily.
The color: Could bring back N.Y. Timesers in exile in L.A.
Odds: 2–1
Marty Baron
Boston Globe editor
The scoop: Has run newsrooms (including the Times’, at night), won Pulitzers.
The dirt: Cold, distant, bearded. And would leave a hole at the Globe, a Times Co. property that works.
The color: Has an M.B.A.
Odds: 3–1