marty baron, executive editor of the "washington post," has been executive editor of "the boston globe," very farseeing editor who promoted this story. i was fascinated by it. and i was contacted. i did know that they were being represented at the time, i summon i don't 30 years earlier in boston. she reached out to me because the family was getting a lot ofp publicity requests. a were uncomfortable with doing anything more than that. they wanted to protect their kids and have them grow up, have them a normal teenage life, but they knew that down the line after they graduate high schoolh they would want this story to bc told. she contacted me because she knew i'd written a book, and so this story came to me but i remember saying to my agent, this is fascinating. the fact they were identical twins is an important aspect conducts when the science and what we know about the brain and gender. th i said, but you think anyone is going to want to read a book about a transgender kid? that was five years ago and the world has changed dramatically since then. honestly it's a serendipitous public

these are supercomplex-- being the executive editor of the post we have marty baron who it my opinion is the best executive ed-- editor in the world. he and his team, this redoing an unbelievably good job. and again back to, you know, have i been talking about the business model of the post, to transition to this new way of having a small amount of money with-- per read we are lots of readers. the real reason this can work is because the post is creating rivetting coverage. and they're doing it. they are. you can't, you know, turn around a restaurant with business techniques if thed into isn't gelicious. and we have delicious-- content-- you know, the post is just rivetting. they are killing it. i am so proud of that team. >> rose: people in my profession are great admirers of what "the washington post" is today under marty baron's leadership. especially in foreign coverage. >> totally. and marty would be the first one to tell you this. it is his team. he put those people in place. and he has give enthem lots of kind of energy and they're proud of the product they're creating. the pos

the guy who was editor of the boston globe and responsible for those stories with a guy named marty baronexecutive editor of the washington post. we are lucky to have him. so think of those ways in which the media did a good job and the way in which jim mccartney did a good job trying to illuminate these issues and think about them. when we were living in florida, he became a popular speaker, the library and various groups would like to hear how does washington work, and very good at talking about these issues. when bush invaded iraq in 2003, focused more and more on the war and peace angle and when he finished making these talks, people would say i had no idea, please write a book explaining this. i didn't understand the connections that you made. this is what he was working on when he died in 2011. at the memorial service a few weeks later one of the women who had known him and was active in getting him out to see, what will happen to jim's book. i really don't know, you need to finish that book, it needs to be out there. it took a little while to get through the material. and get whate

the guy who is editor of the boston globe who was responsible for those stories was a guy named marty baronexecutive editor of the washington post, we are lucky to have him. i hope you will think of those ways the media can do a good job, the way in which jim mccartney did a good job in trying to illuminate these issues and get people to think about them. when we were living in florida in 2000 he became a very popular speaker, various groups would like to hear how does washington work and he was good at talking about the use issues but when bush invaded iraq he began to focus more and more on the war and peace angle and when he was finished people would say i had no idea. please write a book explaining this because i didn't understand the connections. that is what he was working on when he died in 2011 and that his memorial services a few weeks later one of the women who had known him and been active in getting him out to speak said what is going to happen to jim's book? i said i really don't know. she said you need to finish that book because that needs to be out there. though it did take

my name is marty pair on, i'm the -- baron, i'm the executive editor of "the washington post", and we're really delighted all of you came out this evening to the post. we're happy to welcome you here. tonight you're going to get the chance to meet some of the journalists and the editors behind the post's book "trump revealed." as you know. this was an exhaustively researched book about the life and the career of donald trump. you know, the post has a long tradition of delving deeply into the presidential nominees of each major party. and this year given donald trump's, shall we say, novel and oversized presence in the political arena, there was an opportunity to do a book. and we were happy to seize that opportunity. and we're especially grateful to scrivener, so we're here, all these folks who just came in just on time for making that possible. i'm not going to mention all of them, but i do want to mention that we have publisher nan graham. raise your hand, nan. there we go. [applause] and we have editor-in-chief colin harrison here. thank you for -- [applause] all you did. they worked