By: Marty Baron | Nieman Journalsim Lab
Editor’s note: At this weekend’s International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, the Saturday afternoon keynote was Marty Baron, executive editor of
The Washington Post and one of the country’s most prominent newspaper editors in earlier roles at
The Boston Globe and
The Miami Herald. The Post has, like all American newspapers, had a rough decade or so, but its purchase last August by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos opened up a new sense of optimism about its future.
In recent weeks, much of the talk about the
Post has centered on the defection of Ezra Klein and a handful of other staffers to start Vox, which launched last night to much interest. But despite the outsized chatter that move prompted, Baron told the ISOJ audience he’s optimistic about the future of the
Post and the broader news world.
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