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Marty Baron, who stepped down as Washington Post editor this week, has been hailed as a hero by journalists at his own organization and others in the media elite. He departs amid a shower of adulatory news stories and softball interviews.
But one exchange in a Vanity Fair interview perfectly demonstrates why his departure is welcome, and overdue.
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At issue was what Baron had learned from confronting the powerful criticisms being raised by some staffers about hiring, coverage and newsroom conventions that, as former Post reporter Wesley Lowery once put it, unquestioningly reflect the views and inclinations of whiteness.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is entering perhaps one of the most pivotal weeks of his decades-long political career, a sentence that would have been unthinkable a month ago. It’s the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed Covid-19 case in New York and
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