Marty Baron, 'the ultimate old-school editor' retires from Washington Post

His tenure encompassed a new owner in Jeff Bezos and a new presidency that put the Post in the frontline of Trump's war on truth

One of the arts of editorship is knowing when to delegate. It spared Marty Baron, stepping down after eight years as executive editor of the Washington Post, from having to follow Donald Trump on Twitter.

I figured that we had a staff who could follow his Twitter feed and I could find out from them whether there's something consequential he said," Baron explains, a year to the day since his own last tweet. I've basically gone cold turkey on Twitter and I feel fine."