US EditionIs Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?
- Jeff Bezos, who has owned The Washington Post since 2013, is currently under increased criticism regarding his leadership and the newspaper's recent challenges.
- This scrutiny follows Bezos's moves to quash the Post’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris before the 2024 election and his apparent shift toward a friendlier stance with Donald Trump’s administration.
- These decisions triggered a significant backlash including hundreds of thousands of subscription cancellations, resignations of several board members, and a notable exodus of top staffers to other outlets.
- Will Lewis, Bezos’s hand-picked CEO and publisher since 2024, faces criticism for poor leadership and frequent absences amid rumors of drinking issues, contributing to widespread staff demoralization and calls for clearer direction.
- The Post’s ongoing struggles suggest major institutional challenges related to leadership and ownership decisions that affect its journalistic independence and staff morale.
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Washington Post CEO in ‘state of hiding’ as staffers joke about his rumored drinking
‘Since last June, Lewis has gone into what a number of Post staffers described as a state of hiding,’ the New Yorker reported this week, adding that Will Lewis appears to have also had a falling out with his executive editor
Jeff Bezos' tenure as Washington Post owner in spotlight as paper grapples with low morale, staffer exodus
Jeff Bezos is facing a new round of scrutiny as the billionaire owner of The Washington Post and whether he bears any responsibility for the struggles the paper is facing 12 years after he bought it. Bezos was the subject of a lengthy story published Monday in The New Yorker with the headline, "Is Jeff Bezos selling out the Washington Post?" The piece offered a timeline beginning with Bezos' $250 million purchase of The Post from the Graham fami…
Lauren Sanchez ‘very influential’ in how Bezos runs the Washington Post – Usa news
The New Yorker this week tries to delve into what Jeff Bezos is doing with the Washington Post, after he and his fiancee Lauren Sanchez enjoyed a prominent place at Donald Trump’s inauguration, and after the Amazon founder made several other high-profile moves that are seen as him moving the long-revered journalistic institution into a direction that’s friendly to the president’s MAGA agenda. Actually, no one in this lengthy New Yorker article c…
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