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Monday, December 06, 2004
BIG AWARD FOR BARON.
Boston Globe editor Martin Baron will be honored as the 2004
Beveridge Editor of the Year, according to this
Associated Press report (via Romenesko).
According to the website of the National
Press Foundation, which
awards the Beveridge,
"The award is open to an editor at any level, is made in recognition
of imagination, professional skill, ethics and an ability to motivate
staff - qualities that produce excellence in media."
Other National Press Foundation
winners are Tim Russert and Seymour Hersh.
A couple of sidelights about
Baron's award:
- The 2003 winner was Sandra Mims
Rowe, the editor of the Oregonian. Rowe had been a candidate
to succeed
retiring Globe editor Matt
Storin in the summer of
2001 before publisher Richard Gilman turned to Baron, then the
executive editor of the Miami Herald and a veteran of the
Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.
- The 2002 winner was Howell
Raines, then the executive editor of the New York Times. Of
course, in 2003 Raines was forced to resign over his brutal
mismanagement of the
Jayson Blair scandal. In
May 2004, the Atlantic Monthly published a monumental
post-mortem by Raines in which, among other things, he cited Baron as
a model:
[T]he feverish
pace also underscored some of my weaknesses. One of these is to
respond to great staff effort by demanding that the next day we do
"more, better, faster" in the words of Martin Baron, the similarly
inclined editor of The Boston Globe.
That drew a letter from Baron,
published in the July/August issue that began:
Howell Raines endeavors to
pull me into his orbit by invoking my desire to get "more, better,
faster" from a newsroom. Having never worked for or with him, I
can't speak from experience about his approach to managing a news
staff. I imagine our styles differ quite a bit.
My model (and mentor) is his
predecessor, Joe Lelyveld, who is deplorably mistreated and
inaccurately portrayed in Raines's assessment of The New York
Times.
Somehow I don't think Baron and
Raines will be sitting together at the awards dinner.
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Russert deserves nothing. His failure to reveal to the NBC audience that he knew that Edwards and VP DC had met and spoke on the Meet the Press set was shameful to the news profession. He left it out,presumably, because NBC was polling in the aftermath of the Veep debate and he didn't want to say that Dick lied. The next morning with a big smile on his face big Tim said sure he knew that it was a fib and that Dick had met Edwards. Russert,the highly rated currupt pundit, is an overrated newsman.
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