In “Collision of Power,” Baron reveals how he handled a changing newsroom culture, complex journalistic decisions and the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos.
“This was not a dinner I was looking forward to,” writes Baron, disclosing the meeting for the first time in his new memoir, “Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post.” “What good could come from spending time with him that evening?”
At the time they met with Trump, the Post team was still settling in together. Baron joined The Post at the start of 2013 after a storied tenure at the Boston Globe. Bezos bought the paper that summer, ending control of the newspaper by the Graham family, who had owned it for 80 years. Ryan, who co-founded Politico, came on in 2014.
Katharine Weymouth, a Graham family member who served as The Post’s publisher when Bezos bought the paper, apparently had no such relationship. According to Baron, Weymouth had no one-on-one meetings with Bezos during his first year as owner, had no direct phone number to reach him and used the same email address that was available to any Amazon customer who wanted to write to Bezos. In August 2014, Bezos dismissed her, in a meeting that Baron says “lasted no more than five minutes.
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