title: Kevin Baron (journalist)
text: # Kevin Baron (journalist)
  
  Kevin Baron (born 1975) is an American journalist, and the founding executive editor of Defense One, a subdivision of Atlantic Media.
  
  ## Education
  
  Baron graduated from the University of Richmond in 1997, with a B.A. in international studies, and from the George Washington University with an M.A. in media and public affairs in 2004.
  
  ## Career
  
  Previously, he was national security staff writer for National Journal and a reporter for Stars and Stripes, the Boston Globe Washington bureau, and the Center for Public Integrity.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 2010 Military Reporters & Editors Award
  * 2009 George Polk Award, Military Reporting
  * 2003 George Polk Award, Internet Reporting, (Center for Public Integrity)
  * 2008 ICIJ Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, Finalist
  * 2008 Scripps-Howard Foundation National Journalism Award, Washington Reporting, Finalist
  * 2007 Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) Award, International Perspective, Finalist
  * 2006 Monthly Journalism Award, Washington Monthly, December 2006
  
  ## Works
  
  * "Files prove Pentagon is profiling reporters", Stars and Stripes, Charlie Reed, Kevin Baron, Leo Shane III, August 27, 2009
  