Martin Baron usually has trouble staying awake for the Academy Awards. That trend should change this year, asย he’ll be seatedย inside the Dolby Theatre.
Baron is the former editor of the Boston Globe who is portrayed by Liev Schreiber in the Oscar-nominated film “Spotlight.”
Now the executive editor of the Washington Post, Baronย penned a first-hand account of his take on the film for DC’s newspaper of record. Schreiber apparently found Baron’s role frustrating to fully understand at first, but he eventually nailed it.
“Schreiber portrays me as the newly arrived top editor who launched that investigation, and his depiction has me as a stoic, humorless, somewhat dour character that many professional colleagues instantly recognize,” Baron wrote in the piece.