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Hub Dialogues: Martin Baron on the state of journalism & its future

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Martin Baron, a long-time American journalist and former executive editor of The Washington Post, about his must-read book, Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post. 


The episode is part of The Hub's Future of News series in which The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, will be in conversation with journalists and policy thinkers to explore the challenges facing the news media industry and the respective roles of business and government to establish sustainable models for producing and distributing news and information. The Future of News series is supported and funded by The Hub’s foundation donors and Meta. 


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