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
Angeles times, the New York Times and the miami harold. 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 donald trump routinely criticized the press humiliating a number of reporters, bullying others, challenging the very concept of freedom of the press as written into the First Amendment of the u. S. Constitution. If he won it would inevitably change. That is the way it has always been. He won and it has not changed. It has gotten much worse even on occasion frightening. I use that word deliberately. The word of a president is much more consequential than the word of a candidate. I know other president s have had their quarrels with the media but donald trump crossed a bright line when he accused reporters of being the enemies of the American People forgetting it was a favor