{"id":7943,"date":"2025-09-20T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cntiwpedev.wpenginepowered.com\/?post_type=mbmamp_team_member&#038;p=7943"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:39:56","slug":"marty-baron","status":"publish","type":"mbmamp_team_member","link":"https:\/\/cnti.org\/about-us\/team\/marty-baron\/","title":{"rendered":"Marty Baron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martin (Marty) Baron retired at the end of February 2021, after eight years as executive editor of<em>&nbsp;The Washington Post<\/em>. News staffs under his leadership have won 18 Pulitzer Prizes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>Post<\/em>&nbsp;won 11 Pulitzers for coverage during his tenure that included the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and investigations of the National Security Agency and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. While he was top editor of&nbsp;<em>The Boston Globe<\/em>, it won six Pulitzer Prizes, including for its investigation into the Catholic Church\u2019s concealment of clergy sex abuse. That coverage was portrayed in the Academy Award-winning movie \u201cSpotlight.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Miami Herald<\/em>&nbsp;under his leadership won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the raid to recover Eli\u00e1n Gonz\u00e1lez, the Cuban boy at the center of a fierce immigration and custody dispute.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baron was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. He graduated from Lehigh University in 1976 with both a B.A. in journalism and an MBA, having completed a five-year program in four years. 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