“The new owner of CBS and the editor-in-chief of the news division set an explicit objective of appealing to the center right and the center left. That is a political goal. It is not a journalistic one.”
— Marty Baron, former top editor at the Washpost
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Keynote address of the Peter F. Collier Awards for Ethics in Journalism, April 15, 2026 delivered by Marty Baron, acclaimed former executive editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.
