If you鈥檝e seen the movie Spotlight ...
you鈥檒l know what Marty Baron stands for: tenacious, ambitious journalism. Invaluable, distinct work that only journalists can do.
The man who was the catalyst behind聽The Boston Globe聽Spotlight Team鈥檚 investigation into sex abuse in the Catholic Church is now at聽The Washington Post, the storied newspaper of Woodward and Bernstein and Watergate. Baron and the Post are embracing the digital age with an unwavering commitment to meaningful journalism.
Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, in conversation with CBC鈥檚 Robyn Bresnahan
Baron packed the house at 杏吧原创 on Feb. 3, 2016. The former Boston Globe editor spoke eloquently about journalism’s mission just weeks before the movie Spotlight, which was聽based on work he and his team did at the Globe, won an Oscar for Best Picture.
The movie put journalism front and centre in a way that hadn’t happened since All the President’s Men was released in the 1970s.
The Spotlight Team
How Baron and the Boston Globe鈥榮 investigative journalists pursued the story
On Investigative Journalism
鈥淣ot holding powerful individuals and powerful institutions accountable is the single most irresponsible thing we can do as journalists.鈥�
On Journalism鈥檚 Future
In order to succeed we have to learn some new things. And the world has changed, so I think we simply have to embrace that 鈥� it doesn鈥檛 mean we have to give up our principles. It doesn鈥檛 mean we have to give up ambitious journalism.鈥�
Questions from the Audience
From how a profit-oriented business model can accommodate investigative journalism 鈥� to advice for journalism students
From the聽Ottawa Citizen
Newspapers 鈥榠rresponsible鈥� in failing to hold the powerful to account, says Pulitzer winner
鈥淣ewspaper managers聽who use the excuse that the lack of resources prevents them from investigating powerful institutions or individuals are shirking their responsibly to the community they serve, says a prominent American news executive.鈥�
聽by Robert Sibley
Under Marty Baron鈥檚 stewardship as executive editor, The Washington Post has won three Pulitzer Prizes since 2014. He previously led journalists at The Boston Globe to six Pulitzers, including one for the Globe鈥檚 Spotlight Team investigation into a pattern of concealing clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
Prior to the Globe, he held top editing positions at The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Miami Herald. Under his leadership, The Miami Herald won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Coverage in 2001 for its coverage of the raid to recover Eli谩n Gonz谩lez, the Cuban boy at the center of a fierce immigration and custody dispute.
Baron was named Editor of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2001, and Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation in 2004.
The CBC鈥檚 Robyn Bresnahan is the host of Ottawa’s number one morning radio program, Ottawa Morning.聽An award-winning experienced journalist who has travelled the world, Robyn now hosts the same program where she began her career a decade ago.聽While she was in her final year at 杏吧原创 University’s School of Journalism in 2001, Robyn joined CBC Radio in Ottawa as a reporter and Associate Producer. She has worked for CBC Calgary, and聽regularly produced documentaries for The Current, Definitely Not the Opera and The Sunday Edition.
She then worked for the BBC World Service as a host and Senior Broadcast Journalist. She began with World Today, and over the years has hosted every daytime show on the World Service, including the Sony-award winning Newshour. Her work has taken her to the heart of some of the biggest stories in the world, which she reported for radio, television and online.