New York (AFP) – The New York Times on Tuesday announced the appointment of veteran journalist Joe Kahn as its next executive editor, the top newsroom position at the powerful US paper. Kahn — currently the Times’s number two-ranked editor — will succeed Dean Baquet, whose eight-year reign is due to end in June, the daily said. The 57-year-old will be tasked with shaping the digital future of the Times, a leading liberal voice in world journalism, as it vies for audiences around the globe. Kahn said securing readers’ trust “in a time of polarization and partisanship” was one of his top prior…