https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Axelrod_(political_consultant)

David M. Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political consultant and analyst and former White House official. He is best known for being the chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns. After Obama's election, Axelrod was appointed as Senior Advisor to the President.[1] He left the position in early 2011 and became the Senior Strategist for Obama's successful re-election campaign in 2012.[2][3] Axelrod wrote for the Chicago Tribune, and joined CNN as Senior Political Commentator in 2015.[4] As of December 2019, Axelrod serves as the director of the non-partisan University of Chicago Institute of Politics.[5] His memoir is titled Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.[4][6]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Baron

Martin Baron (born October 24, 1954) is an American journalist who was editor of The Washington Post from December 31, 2012, until his retirement on February 28, 2021.[1] He was previously the editor of The Boston Globe from 2001 to 2012. Baron achieved heightened prominence in 2015 and 2016 from his portrayal in the film Spotlight and his involvement in the release of Jason Rezaian, the Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post, who was released in January 2016 after being imprisoned in Iran for 18 months.[2]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jG17NokHsE

Baron and Axelrod discuss their demise, enjoy the salty tears…

>54 views•May 13, 2021•UChicago Institute of Politics

Join the IOP as we welcome former executive editor of The Washington Post Martin Baron for a live taping of The Axe Files podcast. Baron joins IOP director David Axelrod to discuss Baron’s remarkable 45 years in journalism.

A titan of print journalism, Baron worked for The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times in senior roles before taking the reins at the Post. Newspapers overseen by Baron have received a remarkable 17 Pulitzer Prizes. While Baron was executive editor of The Boston Globe in 2003, the paper was recognized with a Pulitzer for its exposure of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. That investigation inspired the 2015 Oscar-winning film Spotlight in which Baron is portrayed by Liev Schreiber. While Baron led The Washington Post, the newspaper earned 10 Pulitzers, nearly doubled the number of journalists on staff, and grew its digital audience to 3 million subscribers. He oversaw an exhaustive fact-check of the Trump Administration, tallying 30,573 false or misleading claims over President Trump's term. In 2021, Baron stepped down after eight years as executive editor of The Washington Post.

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