Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose dean baquet is here. He is the executive editor of the New York Times. It is the top position in the news room. He took over in may of last year succeeding jill abramson. She was the papers first female editor. He became the first africanamerican to hold the post. The digital era has disrupted the business of journalism as many of you know and has presented challenges and opportunities. Many traditional News Organizations have reduced staff in face of significant competition from digital outlets. The New York Times has withstood the downturn. Last month, reached the milestone of 1 million digitalonly subscribers. As it charts its path forward, the times is experimenting with a new form of storytelling. The lathest project a tenminute Virtual Reality film that tells the story of children displaced by war. This week more than a million New York Times subscribers received google Virtu
Frantic look at the evidence given in the hearings. A major bestseller that i published after that was called the bell curve by Charles Burney and Richard Bernstein and since then books of note, one of the books that im proudest of having published is called denying the holocaust by deborah dads, but that we had to twist evers im too published because she didnt want to give Holocaust Denial a forum. She said its not a good idea to publish a book about them because thats what they want. They want attention and they want to be taken seriously. We persuaded her that it was an important subject and interestingly enough she was sued in a British Court by david irving, a famous holocaust denier and she won. I believe he went to jail so very satisfied with that outcome. A few years ago in the earlier part of 2000 i published Jonah Goldbergs liberal fascism which was a lot of fun. More recently sarah palins going rogue and america by heart and currently a book by Peter Schweitzer who has been
In what was happening in the world am i parents were immigrants to the United States, interested in this country, what was happening in this country and around the world. We would read newspapers and watch Television News and local news. Way back when, i got interested in it. Host you grew up in tampa. Where did your parents come from . Why did they come to the united . Marty baron they came from israel and they came to the United States, believing in the american dream. In 1954, they came to the United States and my father worked in the Citrus Industry in florida. Host when did you understand what journalism was supposed to be . Marty baron in high school, i had a sense of always happening in the profession and i was pretty sure that i wanted to make it my career at an early age. So, i read about it, knew about it, absorbed it. I tried to be professional in high school. In college, i became more aware and majored in journalism, getting the mba. I try to be more and more professional a
Can you remember the first time you got interested . I was in Junior High School keenly interested in what was appening in the world. So through their reading of newspapers and watching news and National News i got interested in it myself. You grew up in tampa. Where did your parents come from . They came from israel. They came to the United States. My father believed in the american dream. They stopped in paris. Then in 1954 came to the United States and my father started working in the Citrus Industry in florida. When did you start to understand what journalism was supposed to be . I think in high school to some degree. I had a sense of what was happening in the profession. I was sure i wanted to make it my career at an early age and so i read about it knew about it absorbed it. So i tried to be as professional as possible in high school. I dont think i was terribly professional. In college i also became of course more aware. One, i knew the journalism was becoming more specialized a
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