Lenox — Newsrooms under Martin Baron’s leadership have won 17 Pulitzer Prizes, including 10 at the Washington Post, where he currently serves as executive editor. Interviews with Mr. Baron are understandably difficult to come by, but professor Jeremy Yudkin managed to get one for the Lenox Library’s Distinguished Lecture Series, which Jeremy has organized and hosted for the last 14 years.
This year’s distinguished lectures will be conducted via Zoom, which means that for the first time in the series’ history, guest speakers from anywhere in the world can participate. And so they shall: Michael Hannahan, director of the UMass Civic Initiative at the Donahue Institute, appears Sunday, Oct. 18; and Tony Cenicola, photojournalist for the New York Times appears Sunday, Nov. 15. More will be announced.
The library’s full billing of Sunday’s event is as follows: “The Biggest Stories: An Interview with the Executive Editor of The Washington Post (2013-present), Boston Globe (2001-12), and Miami Herald (2000-01).”
The Boston Globe during Martin Baron’s tenure received a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its reporting on cover-ups of clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church. That coverage was portrayed years later in the Academy Award-winning movie “Spotlight,” starring Liev Schrieber.
To participate in Sunday’s interview via Zoom, click here to join the meeting a little before 4 p.m. on Sunday.
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The Lenox Library’s Distinguished Lecture Series takes place once a month during the fall and winter on Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m., lasting about 45 minutes and followed by a live Q&A session. You can stay informed of other lectures in this series by subscribing to the Lenox Library newsletter here.
