In address on media ethics, former Washington Post editor worries about fading moral compass

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NEW YORK (AP) — In a speech about the importance of ethics in the news media, veteran editor and retired Washington Post leader Marty Baron is singling out for criticism CBS News leaders, advocacy journalists and mainstream reporters who failed to aggressively cover former President Joe Biden’s fitness for office.

The renowned Baron, also a former editor of The Boston Globe and The Miami Herald, gave a keynote address Wednesday as New York University handed out journalism awards. The Associated Press was praised for its “unyielding defense of ethical standards and principles” for not changing its style guidance after President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. The AP’s lawsuit against the White House for reducing some of its access is currently under consideration by an appeals court.

NYU also honored The Atlantic for how it wrote about its editor inadvertently being included in a text chain with Trump administration and military figures, and student journalists at NYU, Stanford and the University of Texas at Dallas.

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