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show bio Martin Baron
Martin Baron is an American journalist who has been the editor of The Boston Globe since 2001. Born and raised in Tampa, Florida in 1955, Mr. Baron graduated from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He began working for the The Miami Herald in 1976, then moved to The Los Angeles Times in 1979. Next, Mr. Baron worked for The New York Times in 1996, then he returned to the Herald as chief editor in 1999.
Corporate Media and Public Service: Is there a Connection?
Date: 2/17/2009
As editor of "The Boston Globe" since 2001, Martin Baron has led the newspaper to four Pulitzer Prizes in his short tenure. Here, Mr. Baron provides specific instances when corporate media has served the public good. He cites, for example, his newspaper's role in uncovering the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandals in the Archdiocese of Boston in 2002. Ultimately, he concludes that corporate media can serve the public by offering a level of in-depth reporting we cannot get elsewhere.
