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In this powerful episode of Gamechangers LIVE, we sit down with Marty Baron, legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. From greenlighting the Spotlight investigation that exposed systemic child abuse within the Catholic Church—depicted in the Oscar-winning film Spotlight—to publishing the NSA surveillance leaks from Edward Snowden, Baron shares what it truly means to speak truth to power.Topics Covered:The untold story behind the Spotlight investigationThe chilling risks and ethics of publishing Snowden's leaksNavigating the Washington Post through Trump's attacks on the free pressWhy “Democracy Dies in Darkness” isn't just a sloganThe state of press freedom and democracy todayBehind the scenes of his book Collision of PowerMarty's Book: Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post — now available on Amazon.

The Intercept Briefing is sharing a recent live podcast recording The Intercept's Senior Politics Reporter Akela Lacy joined about the unlawful detention of Rümeysa Öztürk — a graduate student who was seized by federal immigration agents for co-authoring an op-ed in her school's newspaper. The live event, hosted by Question Everything with Brian Reed – which you can listen to on KCRW – and the Tufts Daily where Rümeysa published her op-ed, gathered journalists, editors, and attorneys, including Carol Rose, who is part of Rümeysa's legal team and executive director of the Massachusetts ACLU. They discussed the status of Rümeysa's case and the conditions she's enduring under ICE detention, and the chilling effects her case has had on speech, journalism, and academic freedom. Full episode description: Where better to huddle up and discuss what to do about Rümeysa Öztürk and the chilling effect that is happening in journalism than on campus at Tufts University with the student journalists at The Tufts Daily?This week Brian and Question Everything co-host a live event with the editor-in-chief and associate editor from The Tufts Daily – Arghya Thallapragada and Ellora Onion-De. Together they interview journalists and attorneys, including Carol Rose, part of Rümeysa's legal team and executive director of the Massachusetts ACLU, to learn what all happened to Rümeysa and why. What did her abduction by federal agents a month ago have to do with her immigration status as a Turkish graduate student studying child development, here on a student visa? Why did Secretary of State Marco Rubio say her Op-ed was cause for incarceration? Why is she still in ICE's custody? And what happened to the constitutional protections around free speech and a free press that we depend on in a free society? Joined by former editor-in-chief of both the Washington Post and the Boston Globe, Marty Baron; First Amendment lawyer Robert Bertsche; and senior politics reporter at The Intercept Akela Lacey; the group wrestles in real time with the gravity of this moment, not just for Rümeysa Öztürk, but for all of us.Read the Op-ed Rümeysa and others wrote that ran in The Tufts Daily a year ago in March.Watch the video of federal agents in plainclothes, forcing Rümeysa Öztürk into an SUV on March 25, 2025.Quick thing: In our discussion Carol Rose says the ACLU has filed 100 legal actions in President Trump's first 100 days. The specific count on those is actually higher: the ACLU filed 110 legal actions in the Trump administration's first 100 days.Sign up for our newsletter: www.kcrw.com/questioneverything“Question Everything” is a production of KCRW and Placement Theory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Entrevistamos en Madrid a Marty Baron, ex director de "The Washington Post". Y sobre la posibilidad de que el Congreso de EE. UU. ponga fin a la política arancelaria de Trump hablamos en Washington D.C. con la periodista Dori Toribio

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, March 7 and reports on tensions between Elon Musk and Trump's cabinet, Trump's string of legal losses as the Supreme Court rejects his bid to avoid paying USAID contractors, and market instability amid tariff uncertainty. Marty Baron, Joyce Vance, and Bryan Lanza join.

The Conifer Quartet is an ensemble within the musician-led cooperative Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. They have a show Sunday at the Allen Center in Newton and join us for Live Music Friday.Alan Solomont is the former U.S. ambassador to Spain. He's fresh of a visit to the Middle East and he joins us to reflect on the latest news about and Israel's war with Hamas.Gina McCarthy is the former head of the EPA and so-called “Climate Czar” under Joe Biden. She joins to talk about Trump rolling back her former agency and other climate headlines.Due to a technical difficulty with Marty Baron, former editor of the Boston Globe and Washington Post (it's live radio, folks!), we end the show with a call-in free-for-all about grammar rules and grammar pet peeves.

John is joined by Marty Baron to discuss the changes being wrought by Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post, where Baron served as executive editor from 2013 to 2022, and how the Fourth Estate is faring in the Trump 2.0 era. Baron explains his reaction (disgust, shock, fury) to Bezos's recent ban on opinions at odds with his own from the Post's op-ed pages; why that move and others by the paper's owner since Trump's reelection can only be interpreted as acts of obeisance; and how those actions undermine the Post's credibility. Baron also argues that Team Trump's decision to take control of the White House press pool, handpicking which reporters are granted close access to the president, is part of a broader effort—familiar from autocratic regimes around the world—to undermine and eventually eliminate the free and independent press in America. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin speaks with Marty Baron, the legendary editor who ran the Washington Post until his retirement in 2021. Baron speaks out about recent interventions at the paper by its owner, Jeff Bezos, touching on Bezos's signaled dependence on Trump and his fear of financial retribution. He also speaks on Trump's first month in office and the immense threats he's wielded against the press thus far. In the second half of the episode, Mediaite senior editor Alex Griffing interviews Pentagon reporter Kevin Baron about the Defense Department's crackdown on the press.

Nicolle Wallace on rising public health concerns after Elon Musk's sweeping cuts to USAID, a major government contract Starlink is set to score, and the Trump administration's continued shift away from democratic norms.   Joined by: Dr. Craig Spencer, Dr. Michael Osterholm, John Heilemann, Kyle Lewis, Tim Miller, Marty Baron, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Marc Elias, Alan Rappeport, and Lesli Linka Glatter. 

President Trump met with British Prime Minister Starmer to discuss Russia's war in Ukraine as the White House prepares for President Zelensky's upcoming visit. Plus, how Trump's new tariff policies are straining the economy. And, the former executive editor of The Washington Post discusses Jeff Bezos' changes to its editorial section. Peter Baker, Luke Broadwater, Sam Stein, Brian Barrett, Rohit Chopra, Jason Furman, Marty Baron, and Matthew Dowd join The 11th Hour this Thursday.

Hablamos en Buenos Aires con nuestra compañera Paz Rodríguez Niell; en Estados Unidos con Marty Baron, ex director de "The Washington Post", y también en la capital argentina con Francisco Jueguen, subeditor económico de "La Nación"

Chuck shares thoughts about his future in media, and talks with former Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron about news in the Trump era. 

Stephen Sackur speaks to the former editor of The Washington Post Marty Baron. Donald Trump accused him of peddling lies and fake news. He called it independent evidence-based journalism. Does the re-election of Trump suggest the mainstream media is in terminal decline?

In Berkeley Talks episode 214, former editors of the New York Times and the Washington Post, Dean Baquet and Marty Baron, evaluate how the media covered the 2024 U.S. presidential election and share thoughts on how journalists should effectively cover Donald Trump's second term. In 2016, the New York Times was shocked that Trump won, because they didn't understand that the country was “ready to elect a Donald Trump,” said Baquet at a UC Berkeley Journalism event on Nov. 13. But, he said, he thinks the coverage of the most recent election was much better. “My argument would be that, and people have trouble accepting this, but all of the stuff you know about Donald Trump — his abuse of the tax structure that David Fahrenthold wrote about, his taxes and his tax dodges that the New York Times, including David Barstow, wrote about, the allegations of women, all of the things that became controversies about Donald Trump — were written about in the American press, and the American people voted Donald Trump in anyway. So I actually think the press did a much better job. How do you think the press performed this election?”“Well, I think there was a lot of good work,” responded Baron. “I would say this: When people asked me, ‘How did we do?' in 2016, I said that our problem predated 2016. Our problem is that we did not understand America well enough to understand that this country would produce a candidate like Donald Trump.“We did not understand the level of rancor and grievance against elites, including, and maybe particularly, the press, to understand that they didn't want Jeb Bush, who was called the front-runner at one point. They wanted exactly the opposite of Jeb Bush. They wanted somebody who was not part of governing the ruling elites, the political families. They wanted somebody who was going to go to Washington, basically be an arsonist, burn everything down, punch people in the face. And that's what they elected. And we didn't capture that. We didn't understand the country well enough. I do think that we suffered from the same problem this time.”“But this time, people knew that there was a good chance he'd win,” said Baquet. “There was a good chance he would win, but I don't think people anticipated that he would win as decisively as he has,” said Baron. “And they didn't understand that he would win in the voting segments that he won, to the degree that he did, among Black Americans, among Latinos, among even women, among you name it. To win all of the swing states, I don't think that that was anticipated at all.“And so, I don't think we detected that level of desire for a change. And to me, that is, I think we need to work harder at really understanding the country.”Listen to the episode and read the transcript on UC Berkeley News (news.berkeley.edu/podcasts).Music by Blue Dot Sessions.UC Berkeley photo by Marlena Telvick. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

01:00 Obvious truths about American politics, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157904 05:00 Media Postmortem: A conversation with veteran editors Marty Baron and Dean Baquet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWL5sgZi5Jg Trump's cabinet of podcasters 21:00 Dennis Prager took a nasty fall: Aaron Prager: Life with Dennis Prager, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IUwh_rnG2s 23:00 Life is a spiral staircase, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=17292 26:30 Matt Gaetz & The Non-Binary Capitalist, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vyAHRijO-I 28:20 Russia uses ICBM missile on Ukraine 31:15 When the Irish began to drink 33:00 Vibe shift preceded Trump's victory, https://www.ft.com/content/e8d2fa11-e9c3-4509-b922-0a97e540ca1d 34:50 Serious Trump and Weird Democrats, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p1xvNBlokE 39:00 Erik Prince about threats to Donald Trump 40:00 Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=156522 43:00 Morning Joe tries to restart its relationship with Donald Trump 48:00 The fall of Matt Gaetz 51:15 Ezra Klein: In This House, We're Angry When Government Fails, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT4lxJKj0I0 1:04:40 Pete Hegseth is a terrible pick for Secretary of Defense 1:15:00 YT has had to expand its Overton window to compete with X, Rumble, Substack 1:16:00 Ross Douthat: Trump Has Put an End to an Era. The Future Is Up for Grabs., https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-election-new-era.html 1:19:50 Comcast spinning off MSNBC, wouldn't have happened had Kamala won 1:23:30 Understanding Elon Musk 1:26:00 HRificatio of the Democrats, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/democrats-are-the-hr-department-of-political-parties/680634/ 1:40:00 Manliness is better than Godliness, https://gideons.substack.com/p/manliness-is-next-to-godliness 1:47:00 Personal Growth Series: The Alexander Technique, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzwDRW7-vuc 1:58:00 Claire Khaw joins to discuss sexual morality https://www.lomez.press/p/aeneas-in-washington 2:00:30 Oskar Schindler saved 1100 Jews from the Holocaust, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler 2:07:00 Kip joins 2:40:00 The Work of Turning on Your Audience, https://oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com/p/the-work-of-turning-on-your-audience 3:08:00 ​​Which book are you least likely to recommend to unstable people? 3:15:00 The Long Con: The Dubious Schemes That Fund Right-Wing Media, https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con 3:20: 00 Retribution w/Steve Bannon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrp11c8E6b8 43:50, 1:05:50, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9RiDPbiiUA 3:28:00 Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Samuel Mohilever (Part 2) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQvjLO7ckMM 3:33:00 NYT: In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush With Public Money, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/nyregion/hasidic-yeshivas-schools-new-york.html 3:34:00 NYT: 8 Hasidic Schools Failed to Provide Basic Education, New York City Finds, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/nyregion/nyc-hasidic-yeshivas-education.html 4:14:00 The Great Controversies Of The Chofetz Chaim, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=42671 4:18:00 Is gossip good? https://www.lukeford.net/Dennis/indexp271.html

Trump has called the press the "enemy of the people" and threatened retribution, including jailing reporters, investigating NBC for treason, and suggesting CBS's broadcast license be taken away. Terry Gross talks with David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, and Marty Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, about the media landscape as we head into a second Trump administration.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Trump has called the press the "enemy of the people" and threatened retribution, including jailing reporters, investigating NBC for treason, and suggesting CBS's broadcast license be taken away. Terry Gross talks with David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, and Marty Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, about the media landscape as we head into a second Trump administration.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

It's the last week of the 2024 campaign and Harris and Trump are trying to flood the zone with stops in every battleground. Meanwhile, CEOs are hedging bets on who will win the election. Plus, Nancy Pelosi discusses Trump and Speaker Johnson's "little secret" and whether Johnson plans on certifying the election. And, Marty Baron, former executive editor for The Washington Post, weighs in on the paper's decision not to endorse a candidate for president. Susan Glasser, Mike Madrid, Tim O'Brien, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Miller, Brian Tyler Cohen, and Marty Baron join the 11th Hour this Monday.

Former Washington Post editor Marty Baron discussed the paper's decision not to endorse a presidential candidateWe opened the lines to discuss newspaper endorsementsGroundTruth Project Charlie Sennott spoke from Michigan to discuss Arab American voters concerned with Harris over the administration's support for Israel amid widespread civilian deaths in Gaza. Former labor secretary Robert Reich on the presidential race being so closeRevs Irene Monroe and Emmett Price on Harris' increasing but cautious discussion of faith on the campaign trailWe ended the show discussing Halloween decorations and Skelly

The Washington Post killed their planned endorsement of Kamala Harris. Former editor Marty Baron joins us to discuss, and the newspaper man doesn't mince words: he calls it a spineless, cowardly decision.And, a return to the gilded age – with union-busting billionaire robber barons operating in this country under very different rules than the rest of us. We discuss with former labor secretary Robert Reich.

Plus: A short piece of music written on a tiny card appears to be a lost work by Frédéric Chopin. And: In Lebanon, displaced people find shelter and support in the country's historic old movie theatres; and with Georgians on the streets of Tblisi a politician who led a team of EU observers tells us about the “democratic backsliding” taking place.

On today's Countdown 2024 : Geraldo Rivera on why he's ditching Donald Trump for Kamala Harris. He also has a lot to say about Trump's rally in New York City over the weekend. And former Washington Post editor Marty Baron is not happy the paper is now refusing to endorse a candidate. We ask him what it means for the future of political journalism.

CNN's Michael Smerconish interviews the U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on whether the postal service will deliver all mail-in ballots on time for the 2024 election. David Axelrod and Mark McKinnon discuss the impact of Trump's interview with Joe Rogan while Harris rallies in Houston, TX with Beyonce. Later, Marty Baron, a former executive editor for the Washington Post, chats with Michael about the Post's recent decision to not endorse a presidential candidate.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hablamos en Ciudad de México con el analista Carlos Bravo Regidor y la politóloga Karolina Gilas; en Madrid con Marty Baron, ex director de "The Washington Post", y en la  capital española con Alfredo Relaño, ex director del "As"

Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with The Washington Post's White House Bureau Chief Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa about what Donald Trump's guilty verdict could mean in this election year, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network's Bernie Farber reflects on recent attacks at Canadian Jewish institutions, we present Chattopadhyay's on-stage conversation with former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron about his storied career, and we play another round of our monthly brain game That's Puzzling!

This spring, NBC News, The New York Times, and National Public Radio (NPR) have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers. Journalism as a profession attracts people who are anti-authoritarian, and who see themselves as truth-tellers. Many believe the way to make an organization better is by criticizing it, said Tom Rosenstiel, co-author of “The Elements of Journalism” and a professor at the University of Maryland. NPR editor Uri Berliner didn't receive much internal support for his complaints, but that actually reinforced his point. He said NPR had become too one-sided in promoting a liberal point of view, and that he went public with an essay in another news outlet when his concerns went unanswered by his superiors. NPR management says he is wrong. But Berliner quickly became a hero among conservatives who held the same belief. There are several reasons why many journalists are more apt now to go public with complaints they may once have kept sharing with colleagues down at the corner bar. Among them is the likelihood that their outlet is owned by a faraway hedge fund instead of a local family, said Joel Kaplan, associate dean for graduate studies at Syracuse University's Newhouse communications school and a former Chicago Tribune reporter. A generational change also has emboldened many young journalists. In his own classroom, Kaplan sees more young journalists questioning traditional notions of objectivity that keep them from expressing opinions. Many believe they have the right to state their beliefs and support causes, he said. “Now you have journalists that are advocates,” Rosenstiel said. “That reflects something of a culture war that is happening inside of journalism.” Some traditionalists, like former Washington Post editor Marty Baron, have despaired over some of these changes. Battles with young staff members over how they express their opinions over social media left him despondent, a factor in his eventual retirement. “Never have I felt more distant from my fellow journalists,” he wrote about a staff meeting on the topic in his 2023 book “Collision of Power.” This article was provided by The Associated Press.

Edited highlights of our full length conversation. Here's a question. What is your leadership for? This week's guest is Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the Junior Senator from the State of New York. Running for public office places you in a spotlight that is white hot. Being clear why you've made the choice to run in the first place is table stakes for creating the life you want to live and the legacy you want to leave behind. In too many companies and for too many people, leadership is seen as the thing that comes next for those who are willing to stick around. The inevitability of rising up the org chart into a role that comes with more everything is too rarely challenged by company or individual. Leadership is a privilege. An opportunity to make the biggest difference for the most people, that most of us will ever have. Marty Baron of the Washington Post described it as a responsibility. Mark Thompson, when he was at the New York Times, described leadership as the act of running towards the gunfire. Cecile Richards, formerly of Planned Parenthood, described herself as blessed to have been one of the really privileged few that could do what she thought needed doing. In industries where awards, wins, and results are to the fore, and success is often measured by how many and how much, I'm hoping that some of these conversations will also stir thoughts of what. What do I want to make better? What do I want to change? What difference do I want to make for the people around me? Because, as my work continues to evolve and my understanding continues to deepen, what I increasingly know to be true is that the awards, the wins, and the results are directly connected to the whats. That the leaders who are clearest about what difference they want to make are the ones who have the most evidence of having made it. Literally and figuratively. So, what is your leadership for?

Edited highlights of our full length conversation. Here's a question. What is your leadership for? This week's guest is Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the Junior Senator from the State of New York. Running for public office places you in a spotlight that is white hot. Being clear why you've made the choice to run in the first place is table stakes for creating the life you want to live and the legacy you want to leave behind. In too many companies and for too many people, leadership is seen as the thing that comes next for those who are willing to stick around. The inevitability of rising up the org chart into a role that comes with more everything is too rarely challenged by company or individual. Leadership is a privilege. An opportunity to make the biggest difference for the most people, that most of us will ever have. Marty Baron of the Washington Post described it as a responsibility. Mark Thompson, when he was at the New York Times, described leadership as the act of running towards the gunfire. Cecile Richards, formerly of Planned Parenthood, described herself as blessed to have been one of the really privileged few that could do what she thought needed doing. In industries where awards, wins, and results are to the fore, and success is often measured by how many and how much, I'm hoping that some of these conversations will also stir thoughts of what. What do I want to make better? What do I want to change? What difference do I want to make for the people around me? Because, as my work continues to evolve and my understanding continues to deepen, what I increasingly know to be true is that the awards, the wins, and the results are directly connected to the whats. That the leaders who are clearest about what difference they want to make are the ones who have the most evidence of having made it. Literally and figuratively. So, what is your leadership for?

Here's a question. What is your leadership for? This week's guest is Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the Junior Senator from the State of New York. Running for public office places you in a spotlight that is white hot. Being clear why you've made the choice to run in the first place is table stakes for creating the life you want to live and the legacy you want to leave behind. In too many companies and for too many people, leadership is seen as the thing that comes next for those who are willing to stick around. The inevitability of rising up the org chart into a role that comes with more everything is too rarely challenged by company or individual. Leadership is a privilege. An opportunity to make the biggest difference for the most people, that most of us will ever have. Marty Baron of the Washington Post described it as a responsibility. Mark Thompson, when he was at the New York Times, described leadership as the act of running towards the gunfire. Cecile Richards, formerly of Planned Parenthood, described herself as blessed to have been one of the really privileged few that could do what she thought needed doing. In industries where awards, wins and results are to the fore and success is often measured by how many and how much, I'm hoping that some of these conversations will also stir thoughts of what. What do I want to make better. What do I want to change. What difference do I want to make for the people around me? Because, as my work continues to evolve and my understanding continues to deepen, what I increasingly know to be true is that the awards, the wins and the results are directly connected to the whats. That the leaders who are clearest about what difference they want to make are the ones who have the most evidence of having made it. Literally and figuratively. So, what is your leadership for?

Today on AirTalk, everything you need to know about the student camp-in movement and the pro-Palesteinan protests happening across California universities. Also on the show, a look at the Supreme Court case that considers immunity for former President Trump; Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass sits down to talk about her city budget proposal; and more.   The latest on the student camp-in movement at CA universities (00:17) The push to let undocumented students work on campus (21:57) Retired WaPo editor Marty Baron talks new book (36:12) What to know about Trump's immunity case (53:25) Mayor Bass on her city budget proposal (1:03:15) New photography exhibit looks to project on building (1:32:30)

Here on Inside Sources, our goal is to get past the headlines to the bigger conversations with great thinkers. But there's an infection of instant gratification spreading in media. If we don't refocus our efforts as journalists, reporters and concerned citizens we could lose the integrity of our new. Yesterday, former Washington Post editor Marty Baron sat down for a conversation at UVU to dole out some valuable insight on this issue. Samuel Benson joins the show to talk about what he heard at the forum.

Today's episode features two retired journalists who've written memoirs reflecting on some of the highs and lows of a career in the industry. First, former Washington Post editor Marty Baron speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about Collision of Power, covering the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections and the state of media in today's electoral cycle. Then, former NPR producer Peter Breslow joins NPR's Ayesha Rascoe to discuss Outtakes, taking a three-month work trip camping across China and up Mount Everest and finding hope in a music school in Afghanistan. To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookofthedayLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Pivot will return on Friday! But in the meantime, we're bringing you this special episode of Decoder, all about the demise of Twitter. Nilay Patel talks with Marty Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, and Zoe Schiffer, managing editor of Platformer and author of "Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2023 will go down as the year that Elon Musk killed Twitter. First he did it in a big way, by buying the company, firing most of the employees, and destabilizing the platform; then he did it in a small, but important, symbolic way, by renaming the company X and trying to make a full break with what came before. So now that the story of the company named Twitter is officially over, it felt important to stop and ask: What was Twitter, anyway, and why were so many powerful people obsessed with it for so long? In this special episode, I sat down with Marty Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, and Zoe Schiffer, managing editor of Platform and author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter. We discussed how two of Twitter's most dedicated power users – Donald Trump and Elon Musk — were addicted to the platform, defined it, changed it, broke it, and then put it to rest. Links:  The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge Extremely softcore Inside Elon Musk's “extremely hardcore” Twitter How Twitter broke the news Trump vs. Twitter: The president takes on social media moderation Martin Baron recounts leading The Washington Post during the Trump era Credits:  Decoder is a production of The Verge and is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today's episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt. It was edited by Callie Wright.  The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

READ THE TRANSCRIPT AT HTTP://PETERNAVARRO.SUBSTACK.COM What do you get when you mix an astonishing lack of self-awareness with a liberal dose of self-righteousness?  Toxic Never-Trump propaganda like Collision of Power from the former Washington Post editor Marty Baron.  Baron's self-righteous claim he and the Amazon Post were not waging war against Donald Trump but simply “at work” smells like the Potomac in August.  As Baron produces the mother of all hit books, he expects us to believe the Post treated President Trump fairly. LISTEN FOR THE REST OF THE STORY.  SHARE WITH A FRIEND OR POSTIE.  

Martin (“Marty”) Baron may be best known in pop culture as a character played by actor Liv Schreiber in the 2015 Academy Award Winning film “Spotlight," which re-told the story of the Globe's 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting on the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals. But many in our industry followed Baron closely years later when he moved from the Globe to The Washington Post, succeeding Marcus Brauchli in 2013 as executive editor. Shortly after the move, the Graham family announced they were selling the Post to Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. During the following years, under Baron's leadership, The Post received 10 Pulitzers — four for national reporting, two for explanatory reporting, and single wins for investigative reporting, criticism, feature photography and public service. Some of the major stories the Post broke included coverage of the US Secret Service's security lapses, revealing Roy Moore's sexual misconduct, plus constant, ongoing investigation of the Trump campaign and subsequent four-year administration, exposing many miss-truths and scandals. It is no wonder that Trump was quoted in 2018 as saying, "I will not allow our great country to be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the dying newspaper industry,” singling out The Post for writing “bad stories even on my very positive achievements.” His new book, "Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post," opens with Baron telling the tale of his dinner at the White House. Donald Trump invited Baron, two other senior executives, and Bezos, intending to get The Post to tone down their coverage of his presidency and be "more fair to him." Baron describes Trump as "fundamentally a transactional individual, and if he granted us the favor of dinner, he would expect something in return." But this book is not written as a personal memoir like Ben Bradlees's “A Good Life.” "Collision of Power" focuses on his experiences managing The Post's newsroom during an extraordinary time. Washington was under Trump's influence, and the news publishing industry was changing from a legacy media world to one of social media, blogging and other digital disruptions. In this episode, we go one-on-one with industry veteran Marty Baron, where we discuss his recently released book, "Collision of Power,” which offers an inside view of his time as executive editor of The Washington Post under Bezos' ownership and during Trump's presidency. We also hear his thoughts on managing a newsroom in today's challenging news media ecosystem.  

Here's a question. What do you have a responsibility to? This week's guest is Marty Baron. He's the former editor of the Boston Globe, and the former executive editor of the Washington Post. The newsrooms under his leadership won 17 Pulitzer Prizes. At the Globe, he instigated the investigation into the sexual abuse conducted by the Catholic Church in Boston, and which was turned into the Academy Award winning movie, Spotlight.  The list of seminal stories that were reported under his watch would fill an entire podcast episode by themselves, from Elián Gonzalez, to the Snowden files, to the 2000 Supreme Court decided election to name but a few. His new book, Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post, describes his 8 year leadership journey during one of the most tumultuous times in the paper's history.  Along the way, he has learned a staggering amount about leadership. Leadership, done well, is all about responsibility.  The trouble is that often, the definitions of leadership responsibility are too narrow and shallow. Too quickly defined and too quickly redefined when things get bumpy. When you meet a leader who sees their responsibility as clear, for whom that responsibility is deeply held, whose commitment to it is pressure tested, and for whom their definition of responsibility has withstood the fury of time, it often feels as though they are fearless. You ask them about being afraid and they shake their head. Not brashly, or boldly. But quizzically, almost as though they don't understand the question. And when you are asked to describe that person's leadership qualities, the words that come to the fore are integrity, self awareness, and courage. They are not words they ascribe to themselves. These are words that the rest of us use to help explain what sets them apart. But what sets them apart is not, as I have come to learn, their integrity, their self awareness, or their courage.  What sets them apart is the absolute certainty that they will do the right thing, because their leadership is not about them.  Their leadership is about something that they believe is more important than they are. Which might be the purest definition of leadership that I've heard so far. Judge for yourself.

Edited highlights of our full conversation. Here's a question. What do you have a responsibility to? This week's guest is Marty Baron. He's the former editor of the Boston Globe, and the former executive editor of the Washington Post. The newsrooms under his leadership won 17 Pulitzer Prizes. At the Globe, he instigated the investigation into the sexual abuse conducted by the Catholic Church in Boston, and which was turned into the Academy Award winning movie, Spotlight.  The list of seminal stories that were reported under his watch would fill an entire podcast episode by themselves, from Elián Gonzalez, to the Snowden files, to the 2000 Supreme Court decided election to name but a few. His new book, Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post, describes his 8 year leadership journey during one of the most tumultuous times in the paper's history.  Along the way, he has learned a staggering amount about leadership. Leadership, done well, is all about responsibility.  The trouble is that often, the definitions of leadership responsibility are too narrow and shallow. Too quickly defined and too quickly redefined when things get bumpy. When you meet a leader who sees their responsibility as clear, for whom that responsibility is deeply held, whose commitment to it is pressure tested, and for whom their definition of responsibility has withstood the fury of time, it often feels as though they are fearless. You ask them about being afraid and they shake their head. Not brashly, or boldly. But quizzically, almost as though they don't understand the question. And when you are asked to describe that person's leadership qualities, the words that come to the fore are integrity, self awareness, and courage. They are not words they ascribe to themselves. These are words that the rest of us use to help explain what sets them apart. But what sets them apart is not, as I have come to learn, their integrity, their self awareness, or their courage.  What sets them apart is the absolute certainty that they will do the right thing, because their leadership is not about them.  Their leadership is about something that they believe is more important than they are. Which might be the purest definition of leadership that I've heard so far. Judge for yourself.

Edited highlights of our full conversation. Here's a question. What do you have a responsibility to? This week's guest is Marty Baron. He's the former editor of the Boston Globe, and the former executive editor of the Washington Post. The newsrooms under his leadership won 17 Pulitzer Prizes. At the Globe, he instigated the investigation into the sexual abuse conducted by the Catholic Church in Boston, and which was turned into the Academy Award winning movie, Spotlight.  The list of seminal stories that were reported under his watch would fill an entire podcast episode by themselves, from Elián Gonzalez, to the Snowden files, to the 2000 Supreme Court decided election to name but a few. His new book, Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post, describes his 8 year leadership journey during one of the most tumultuous times in the paper's history.  Along the way, he has learned a staggering amount about leadership. Leadership, done well, is all about responsibility.  The trouble is that often, the definitions of leadership responsibility are too narrow and shallow. Too quickly defined and too quickly redefined when things get bumpy. When you meet a leader who sees their responsibility as clear, for whom that responsibility is deeply held, whose commitment to it is pressure tested, and for whom their definition of responsibility has withstood the fury of time, it often feels as though they are fearless. You ask them about being afraid and they shake their head. Not brashly, or boldly. But quizzically, almost as though they don't understand the question. And when you are asked to describe that person's leadership qualities, the words that come to the fore are integrity, self awareness, and courage. They are not words they ascribe to themselves. These are words that the rest of us use to help explain what sets them apart. But what sets them apart is not, as I have come to learn, their integrity, their self awareness, or their courage.  What sets them apart is the absolute certainty that they will do the right thing, because their leadership is not about them.  Their leadership is about something that they believe is more important than they are. Which might be the purest definition of leadership that I've heard so far. Judge for yourself.

Former Washington Post executive editor and author Marty Baron joins Major this week to talk about the state of journalism, Donald Trump, and his new book "Collision of Power." Baron was portrayed by Liev Schreiber in the 2015 film "Spotlight," which won an Oscar for Best Picture. Join us!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

9 P.M. HourFormer Editor of the Boston Globe and Washington Post, Marty Baron joined Dan to discuss his new book, “Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post.” Baron revealed what it was like working in journalism during a decade of “political turmoil” that included Donald Trump's presidency, the #MeToo Movement, and more!

Baron joined The Washington Post in 2013 – just months before the paper was acquired by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. He led coverage of major news events including Donald Trump's election and presidency, the document leak describing the NSA's surveillance operations, and the murder of George Floyd. His new book is Collision of Power. Also, John Powers reviews two books by Helen Garner.

Marty Baron ran The Washington Post's newsroom for nine years. In that time, Marty clashed with then-president Donald Trump. He pacified rebellions from his younger and increasingly more ideological staff. And he partnered with Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos to take on arguably the biggest disrupter of all: technology.  He's written about all of this — and a lot more — in his new book, Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post. Today, Marty is joining Playbook co-author and Deep Dive host Ryan Lizza to spill the tea on what actually happened between Bezos and Trump; what the media should be doing to earn your trust; and whether billionaires like Jeff Bezos are secretly pulling the strings behind closed doors. Ryan Lizza is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO. Marty Baron is the retired executive editor of The Washington Post.  Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio.  Alex Keeney is a senior producer for POLITICO audio.

Editor and author Tina Brown speaks with Marty Baron about his new book, “Collision of Power,” which delves into his tenure as executive editor of The Washington Post and how that time coincided with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos buying the paper and the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Conversation recorded on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023.

One of the main tenets of journalism is this: Don't become the story. But that's been difficult for Marty Baron, who, as editor of The Washington Post during the Trump years, often found himself at the center of the storm. Following his tenure at The Boston Globe, where he helped uncover rampant clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, Marty led the Post through a tumultuous time in American politics. While newspapers everywhere faced ever-tightening budgets, the Post was bought by billionaire Jeff Bezos, and its journalists were being publicly attacked by President Trump. The Globe's Shirley Leung talks with Marty about holding powerful people to account, what he regrets most about his Post tenure, and the future of journalism. Marty's new book is “Collision of Power.” Email us at saymore@globe.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hosted by Jane Pauley. On today's program, Ted Koppel looks at how artificial intelligence is being developed for the military; Tracy Smith sits down with singer and activist Joan Baez, subject of the new documentary, "Joan Baez I Am a Noise"; Rita Braver talks with the cast of the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along"; Rob Costa talks with former Washington Post editor Marty Baron; and Conor Knighton visits forensic scientists who investigate crimes against wildlife.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Schmidt breaks down an excerpt from former executive editor of The Washington Post's Marty Baron's new book discussing pushback he got from the Trump family. Steve explains that if we want to keep our democracy from being destroyed by Donald Trump, it is up to us, not the news media.To become a The Warning Premium Member with access to premium content visit: https://thewarning.supercast.com/Subscribe for more and follow me here:Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribeTwitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSESFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningsesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

Hablamos en Madrid con el escritor Juan Cruz, en Ciudad de México con la politóloga Karolina Gilas y en Massachusetts con Marty Baron

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Today on Boston Public Radio: We opened the lines to ask listeners what their thoughts were on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision's right to be rude at public meetings. Marty Baron joins us in person to talk about the state of journalism and the legacy behind him. Baron to be editor of the Globe before switching over to lead the Washington Post. He's in town wrapping up a two day fellowship award ceremony at Brandeis and has a book due out in October. Environmentalist Bill McKibben is back to discuss Biden's approval of the Willow Project, and other climate change headlines. Comedian Fortune Feimster is touring her latest show, “Live Laugh Love!” She'll be stopping by the Wilbur tonight and tomorrow. Callie Crossley is on to talk about SCOTUS oversight (and lack of it), a lawsuit involving Amazon stores and the collection of face data, “Naatu Naatu” winning best song at the Oscars, and debate over the best fast-food fish sandwich. Folks from Boston's Metropolitan Chorale and the Celtic outfit Fellswater are joining for a St. Patrick's-y Live Music Friday, ahead of a joint performance tomorrow night at the JFK Presidential Library. We ended the show by asking listeners if they're guilty of the Irish goodbye.