The country. Dean has been in this job since 2014 having earlier served as managing editor and washington. Chief of the times. He also edited the los angeles times, and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting for the Chicago Tribune and started his newspaper career way back when as a Young Journalist at the time stick you in new orleans. Martin baron, marty to most of his friends come join the Washington Post in 2013 after 11 years editing the boston globe. Both papers under his leadership harvested 12 Pulitzer Prizes. Baron also in order times helped edit the los angeles times, the New York Times and the miami herald. Allow me to start our discussion tonight with a simple proposition, that in a democracy such as ours, if freedom of the press is jeopardized, then democracy itself is jeopardized. Since one is intimately linked to the other. During the president ial campaign of 2016, candidate donald trump routinely criticized the press or the media, humiliating a number of reporters, bul