Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post by Martin Baron

Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post

by Martin Baron

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Baron's eight years as executive editor of the Washington Post were a squeeze from two sides. Jeff Bezos bought the paper about seven months after he arrived in 2013, and a president then attacked both the Post and Bezos's Amazon, so you watch him answer to one while covering the other.

Core ideas
  • The big stories: Trump's charitable giving, Secret Service misconduct, Roy Moore, Jamal Khashoggi's murder, Brett Kavanaugh's nomination and January 6 all ran through his newsroom.
  • Managing the newsroom: Staff tensions over gender and race, social-media rules for reporters, #MeToo, COVID and the George Floyd protests all landed on his desk.
  • Judgment calls: He explains his editorial decisions, including how to handle the Steele dossier, with Bezos as owner and Trump on the attack.
Published2023
Pages544
ISBN9781250844200
ReadSep 2026

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