Then, at The Boston Globe, he oversaw a landmark investigation into sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, later made into the Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight.” Liev Schreiber played Mr. As The Miami Herald’s executive editor, he presided over coverage of the 2000 election recount and Elián González’s repatriation. Baron, 66, was already bound for journalism Cooperstown when he joined The Post at the beginning of 2013. He believes in truthfulness and completeness and accuracy and fairness.” “Marty is old-fashioned in the way he approaches the news. “Marty was just the right editor for The Washington Post for the last eight years - thank God,” said Mr. The upshot has been a truly national paper, unmissable not just for inside-the-Beltway scoops but for understanding the country at large. The Post website has been topping 100 million monthly unique visitors of late and is neck and neck with The Times, according to Comscore. Ryan Jr., is leading the search - will inherit roughly three million digital subscribers, said a spokeswoman, the most of any U.S. Baron’s Post was not squeamish about what it meant to chase a big digital audience. The Post is digital first to the point that its print circulation has been more than halved since 2013, according to numbers from the Alliance for Audited Media, with Sunday print circulation around 320,000 last fall.
While many desks have grown, Metro staffing has stayed constant. Baron ran for most of his tenure - had more resources and different priorities.
Baron, who announced his retirement last month and whose last day is Sunday, had signed up to edit one newspaper and ended up for more than seven years at the helm of a very different one.īy contrast, the second Post - the one Mr. Since 2013, the newsroom head count has nearly doubled - it is expected to reach 1,010 this year - with 26 locations around the world, according to a spokeswoman. He appointed a new publisher and turned The Post’s business strategy - and, by extension, its journalistic one - upside down, stipulating that its outlook would change from local to national, even global. Bezos, who declined to be interviewed for this article, supplied resources as perhaps only one of the world’s wealthiest men operating a newly private company could. Bezos, who built Amazon by giving it years of “runway” to lose money in the name of long-term growth, had not bought The Post to continue shrinking it. In the days between hearing about the sale and the public announcement, Mr. “Said this was going to be a good thing.” “He was just really calm about it,” she recalled. Baron, a friend of hers since 1980 and the best man at her wedding. Her first call after hearing about the sale was to Mr. Karen Tumulty, a political correspondent who had arrived from Time three years earlier, emerged from the spa at a resort in California to the message that her husband had been trying to reach her.
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