Icon of United States journalism, Martin Baron has led the newsrooms of three major newspapers in the country such as the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Miami Herald, with which he published major exclusives awarded a dozen Pulitzer prizes. The journalist visited Barcelona within the framework of the Ortega y Gasset awards organized annually by El País.

How can you run a newspaper that is in Trump's crosshairs? Journalist Martin Baron did it between 2016 and 2020 when he was at the helm of the iconic Washington Post, and in front of an audience full of colleagues and journalism students, he explains what his obsession was: "To prevent Trump from getting into my head." The objective was, therefore, that he would not condition his work as director. "As journalists, we must ignore the attacks and focus on doing our job: uncovering the facts, contextualizing them, and disseminating them. He [Trump] said he was at war with the media. And I replied that we were not at war with him, we were simply doing our job, dedicated to the First Amendment of the Constitution." It is unlikely that the young students listening will receive a lesson as profound as that of the veteran American journalist, winner of 16 Pulitzer Prizes, one of them for uncovering the scandal of abuse in the Church at the Boston Globe.

1. Ridiculous. When you see how Netanyahu quickly dismantles any hope of a truce, when the systematic attacks on Gaza are accompanied by an offensive in the West Bank for the expulsion of Palestinians, then it is only from ignorance, impotence, or complicity that one can understand why everyone looks the other way, as if everyone looks the other way.

Donald Trump has only been president for two months, but the violence with which he acts has seeped into society, strained American institutions, and changed foreign trade and political relations. We've all known who Trump is since his first term, and we can only be surprised by the acceleration and depth of his actions. From his first campaign to the storming of the Capitol and the conviction in the Stormy Daniels case, everything pointed to Trump's autocratic ways: how he celebrated violence against protesters during rallies; how he sought to dehumanize and discredit the press; his threats to use presidential power against opponents; his hateful language and subliminal racist messages; his images that conflated money, corruption, globalization, and power; his contempt for verifiable facts and democratic rules; how he confused public and private interests; and his praise of tyrants.

1. Ridiculous. When you see how Netanyahu quickly dismantles any hope of a truce, when the systematic attacks on Gaza are accompanied by an offensive in the West Bank for the expulsion of Palestinians, then it is only from ignorance, impotence, or complicity that one can understand why everyone looks the other way, as if everyone looks the other way.

Donald Trump has only been president for two months, but the violence with which he acts has seeped into society, strained American institutions, and changed foreign trade and political relations. We've all known who Trump is since his first term, and we can only be surprised by the acceleration and depth of his actions. From his first campaign to the storming of the Capitol and the conviction in the Stormy Daniels case, everything pointed to Trump's autocratic ways: how he celebrated violence against protesters during rallies; how he sought to dehumanize and discredit the press; his threats to use presidential power against opponents; his hateful language and subliminal racist messages; his images that conflated money, corruption, globalization, and power; his contempt for verifiable facts and democratic rules; how he confused public and private interests; and his praise of tyrants.

Martin Baron (Tampa, 1954) has participated in one way or another in the obtaining of seventeen Pulitzer Prizes and has been director of theMiami Herald, heBoston Globeand theWashington Post. In it Post He experienced tensions with Donald Trump and the newspaper's purchase by Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, who tried to maintain his independence.

On Sunday, in the dossier, we analyze the countervailing powers in the United States to examine the role of Donald Trump and his administration, unofficially led by Elon Musk. We interview Martin Baron, a leading figure in American journalism and former editor of the Washington Post, who reflects on the role of the press. We also focus on the few well-known figures who have spoken out against Trump.