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Meet Joe Kahn, the Enigma Who Will Run the New York Times

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Meet Joe Kahn, the enigma who will now run the Times.

This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Kahn at home in April. Yes, he gets home delivery. Photo: Chris Buck 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. So I turned to Joseph Kahn, the new top dog at the Times , and asked whom he incinerated to get here. “I didn’t kill anybody,” he said, suppressing a sly smile. It w

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