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Pilita Clark

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(FINANCIAL TIMES) - When The New York Times announced that a man named Joe Kahn would be its next executive editor, I did what every second journalist I know did the other week and scurried to read up on him.
My favourite article, in New York magazine, revealed inter alia that Mr Kahn is a very wealthy wine connoisseur who speaks Mandarin and lives in a Manhattan apartment building once said to have housed Marlon Brando.
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