Washington Post editor Marty Baron on the past, present and future
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🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's the Washington Post doing today to plan for tomorrow? What's the future of the paper look like? |
| 0:09.0 | Those are two of the questions on this week's reliable sources podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm your host, Brian Stelter, and as you know, this weekly podcast is our chance to go in depth |
| 0:20.7 | with media leaders and newsmakers. |
| 0:23.0 | And this week's newsmaker is one of the top editors in the United States. |
| 0:28.0 | Marty Barron has been leading the Washington Post Newsroom |
| 0:32.0 | for the better part of the decade. |
| 0:35.1 | And I spoke with him on Thursday, December 19th, just hours after the House of Representatives |
| 0:40.6 | voted to impeach President Donald Trump. |
| 0:43.0 | So I had a lot to ask him, but I began with that print front page, that banner headline |
| 0:48.4 | that said Trump impeached, and asked about what it's like to produce the first draft of history. |
| 0:54.0 | And Marty Barron joins me now from the Washington Post Newsroom. |
| 0:57.0 | Happy holidays, Marty. Thanks for joining me. |
| 0:59.0 | Thank you. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:01.0 | What a busy week. |
| 1:02.0 | Of course, Wednesday night your newsroom was a buzz working on the impeachment cover. |
| 1:07.2 | What's it like to build that front page when you know the front page is going to be kept for history? |
| 1:14.0 | Well, we do know it's a historic moment, and we try to capture that as much as we can, |
| 1:19.0 | and I think we did that very well. |
| 1:22.0 | Obviously, there are a lot of different angles that we want to cover, |
| 1:24.8 | not just the news, but the analysis of what's happening and what might happen next. So obviously we don't have a lot of days like this hardly any but but we wanted to have a front page that captured the historic nature of this |
| 1:41.0 | Does the print front page still matter and does it matter on days |
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