I was alarmed when I saw NYTimes shut down the story of the Noryway pedophile ring bust. (https://i.sli.mg/0BhVKz.jpg))

I wanted to try to determine who was behind that.

It took me some digging to determine who was the current executive editor of the NYTimes.

The current Who's Who:

• Elizabeth Spayd is the current public editor (https://archive.fo/NJqLG)) of the NYTimes (took the role this year).
• Dean Baquet is the current executive editor (https://archive.fo/xHVBH)) based on this mention by Spayd (https://archive.fo/ZlvEu)).
• Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr is still publisher.

This article describes a power struggle between former executive editor (and staff-favorite) Jill Abramson and current executive editor Dean Baquet and publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr: (https://archive.fo/xHVBH))

And Public Editor Liz Spayd took role in May. Sulzberger announced in February the departure Margaret Sullivan.

NY Post reports:

"...Baquet made the decision to sever the paper from its roots. [Sulzberger] must assess the impact on reporters and editors, and whether they felt pressure to conform their stories to Baquet’s political bias." - (https://archive.fo/OFhLK))

Sounds like Baquet has immense power at the Times.

I found this profile article about Dean Baquet, Exec Editor of NYTimes: (https://archive.fo/VtgIw))

...Some notes

• From New Orleans French Quarter to Treme of Louisiana
• Went to St. Augustine High School (all-boys, all-black Catholic academy)
• Friends with Ex-Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin
• favorite fictional protagonists, Binx Bolling

That last item's interesting. Binx Bolling's character from a summary of the book The Moviegoer: (https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Moviegoer))

"the problems of his family and his traumatic experiences…have left him alienated from his own life…in desperate need of spiritual redemption. At Mardi Gras he…launches himself on a journey…in "search" of his inner self."

Then we find in 2006, ABC News reported that Baquet had killed a story about NSA wiretaps of Americans. - https://infogalactic.com/info/Dean_Baquet

So this Dean Baquet guy killed coverage of NSA wiretap story (https://archive.fo/azlyR)), and he just wiped the Norway pedophile ring bust story from the NYTimes, while the rest of the site is pushing the Russian hacker story: https://sli.mg/uguegS