Boston Globe editor Martin Baron — tall, bearded, bespectacled, sleeves rolled to the elbows — strides back to his corner office from a midafternoon news meeting several weeks into the war on terrorism looking comfortable and confident.
Baron stood soberly beside Gilman in a gray suit, light gray shirt, and blue tie, his hands clasped in front of him.
Baron may brag about the Globe‘s coverage of the war, and he is quick to defend his troops when someone takes whacks at the paper’s mediocre business section, its even worse Sunday magazine, or its scaled-back Sunday book-review section.
In her column for the Boston Globe last July 29, Eileen McNamara complained that Cardinal Bernard Law and the Archdiocese of Boston were hiding the truth about pedophilia among priests behind the confidentiality order of a Superior Court judge.
Baron, 47, had been the executive editor of the Miami Herald for just 18 months but was responsible, Herald Publisher Alberto Ibargüen says, for rejuvenating the newsroom and helping it win a Pulitzer Prize.
The coverage of the pedophile priests in Boston bears Baron's imprint in every detail of its execution: the swift and unwavering pursuit of information in the public interest, a commitment to dispassion and fairness in the presentation of fact, and a zeal to edit, personally and rigorously, the most important stories in the newspaper.
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