WP Editor-in-Chief Marty Baron retires in February
10 Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure
▲ Marty Baron, editor of the Washington Post [이미지출처=AP연합뉴스]
[아시아경제 권재희 기자] Marty Barron (66), editor-in-chief of the Washington Post, who is counted as a real person in the movie’Spotlight’, will resign at the end of February.
Baron is also famous for saying, “We are not going to war, we are doing work,” when former US President Donald Trump criticized the Washington Post article in 2017 and talked about war. .
Director Baron said in an email sent to all employees on the 26th (local time) that he would withdraw at the end of February and said, “We are ready for a new departure.” “It was an honor to work with hundreds of journalists who made WP an essential medium in the United States,” he added. “It was a job that meant a lot to protect democracy and to myself.”
Baron, who took over as editor-in-chief of WP in early 2013, has greatly increased readers and subscribers with solo articles and high-quality articles. In the year that Barron joined WP in 2013, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, took over WP and provided more funding, which also contributed to WP’s expansion. WP reporters, which were at the time of 580, are currently estimated to be over 1,000.
CNN Broadcasting said, “The reason WP was able to expand its influence by increasing the number of reporters was because it successfully attracted online subscribers through independent and must-read articles.”
During his tenure as Director Baron, WP received only the Pulitzer Prize 10 times. At the end of 2019, an exploration report that the U.S. authorities concealed the truth of the Afghanistan war and mislead the public came after a three-year court struggle to secure internal documents.
WP CEO Fred Ryan said, “Under Baron’s eight years of leadership, WP has experienced a dramatic resurgence and has risen to the heights of new journalism.” And achieved an unprecedented level of number of readers and subscribers.”
Meanwhile, he is well known as a real person in the movie’Spotlight’. The film is set in the true story of Boston Globe, an American daily newspaper, uncovering allegations of sexual violence by Catholic priests and systematic attempts to cover it. At that time, the editor-in-chief of Boston Globe was Baron. Actress Liv Shriver plays Director Baron. The film became popular with the 2016 Academy Award for Best Picture.
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