In Big Media Town, ‘Core’ Beat in Flux

By: Margaret Sullivan | New York Times

AS Dean Baquet sees it, there are some coverage areas at which The Times simply must excel.

International reporting is one; books, the executive editor says, is another — in fact, culture writing in general. He also mentioned national security and Wall Street reporting. (I would add fashion to that mix.) And the media business is one more subject that The Times needs to own. Unassailably.