Marty Baron's Plan for WaPo: Revive the Metro Section
Marty Baron, the new executive editor of WaPo, spoke to The New Republic‘s Paul Starobin in a story out today on what happens now? He addresses where Baron will take the publication in the post Marcus Brauchli era. The TNR piece by the ex-Washingtonian bluntly says Baron didn’t offer many details as to what he will do, but he reads between the lines.
“In our conversation, Baron was for the most part unforthcoming as to his vision for the newspaper, with one telling exception—Metro coverage,” he writes, adding that at the Boston Globe, Baron shut down all foreign bureaus to focus on local coverage.
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