"Martin Baron", known as Marty, is an United States/American journalist who has been editor of The Washington Post since Dec.31st 2012, after having been editor of The Boston Globe since July 2, 2001.

Born in Tampa, Florida in 1954, Baron graduated from Lehigh University. He is of Jewish descent.

Baron began working for The Miami Herald in 1976, then moved to The Los Angeles Times in 1979 and to The New York Times in 1996. He returned to the Herald as executive editor in 2000 and was at the helm of coverage of numerous key stories, including Elian Gonzalez' return to Cuba and the 2000 Presidential Election/2000 election..

Baron's editorial helm at the Globe, where he succeeded Matthew V. Storin, shifted the paper's coverage of international events to locally centered investigative journalism. The Globes coverage of the Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston/Boston Catholic sexual abuse scandal earned them a Pulitzer Prize.

On November 13, 2012, the Globe and The Washington Post announced that Baron would take over as executive editor of the Post as of December 31, 2012. Baron succeeds Marcus Brauchli, who took on a new role as vice president of The Washington Post Co., to review and evaluate new media opportunities.

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At some point you have to publish. You can't sit there waiting for every last piece of information, because the paper would then go out at noon, and people would wonder why they didn't get their paper.

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At some point, you have to actually print the newspaper and have it on people's doorsteps when they wake up. What was the alternative? Not to report that? I think that's a bit unrealistic.

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We decided it did not meet our longstanding policy of not publishing words or imagery that are grossly offensive to religious, racial, or ethnic groups. It's a judgment we face daily and have made many times before.

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