Martin Baron, known as Marty, is the current editor of The Boston Globe. He was born and raised in Tampa, Florida, and graduated from Lehigh University. Baron started working for the The Miami Herald in 1976, moved to The Los Angeles Times in 1979, moved to The New York Times in 1996, and came back to the Herald as chief editor in 1999. He was named editor of The Boston Globe on July 2, 2001, sparked by the retirement of the former editor Matthew V. Storin. The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Cigar City, The Big Guava, T-Town Location Location in Hillsborough County and the state of Florida. ... Lehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. ... The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company. ... The Los Angeles Times (also L.A. Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

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• The Boston Globe (July 2, 2001). Martin Baron of The Miami Herald is named Editor of The Boston Globe as Globe Editor Matthew V. Storin announces his retirement. Press release.