Amanpour: Martin Baron, Ahdaf Soueif, Amna Guellali, Chris Young and Kevin Sharp

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron is retiring after a legendary career in journalism. He joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss his life and legacy and how he credits his 'strong sense of mission' for his success. Then looking back at the Arab Spring ten years on; Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Souief and Amnesty International's Amna Guellali discuss how the region has changed since the revolutions one decade ago. Chris Young was sentenced to life in prison at the age of 22 due to mandatory minimum laws, after a third nonviolent drug-related conviction in 2010. Kevin Sharp was the federal judge who handed down that sentence and who later resigned from his lifelong judicial appointment and then worked with Young’s legal team to overturn the sentence. Sharp and Young join our Michel Martin to tell their story. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	After a stellar career spanning half a century and all the major news stories of our time, Marty Barron says
0:15.6	farewell.
0:16.6	We get his first TV interview since saying he'll step down as the Washington Post executive
0:21.6	editor. Then, 10 years since the Arab Spring, what is there
0:28.8	to show for it? I asked two women who played a part in those revolutions that sparked so much hope.
0:35.0	Also ahead.
0:36.0	I did commit crimes, but he seemed past that and understand I was a human.
0:40.6	A judge and the young man he's to life in prison tell our Michelle Martin
0:45.2	how together they won his freedom and finally I could not afford the luxury of just
0:52.1	being an actress.
0:54.0	This is my story.
0:57.0	Screen legend and civil rights activist,
1:01.0	remembering Sisley Tyson dead at 96. Welcome to the program everyone. This week one of the world's great news leaders
1:24.5	announced that he's stepping down from one of the world's great newspapers.
1:27.8	Martin, Marty Barron, who is the executive editor of the Washington Post said he'd be stepping down next month.
1:35.8	Now his time at the top spanned the second Obama term and the Trump presidency.
1:40.8	The whiplash from one to the next was intense as the paper like so many news
1:45.4	organizations had to hold a norm-busting president accountable and do battle with
1:50.7	his avalanche of lies.
1:52.6	Before the post, Baron led the Miami Herald and the Boston Globe newspapers,
1:57.0	breaking massive stories and collecting multiple Pulitzer Prizes along the way.
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