The Washington Post’s Opinions Section The staff look forward to a new leader
THE Washington Post He has faced a talented exodus in recent months and the remaining staff, in particular in the Opinions section, are on pins and needles waiting to see where the “democracy dies in darkness is going”.
The owner of the billionaire Jeff Bezos has regularly annoyed the current employees and ex since he interrupted the editorial page to support the former vice -president Kamala Harris in 2024, pushing several staff members to leave the document. His latest high -profile decision prompted the editor of the Opinions section David Shpley outside and put the unit in limbo until a substitute is appointed, he said a staff Fox News Digital.
Post -post -post employees believe that it is not the best time to work in the section of the document opinions and are not sure if the Bezos relationship with the president Donald Trump It will have an impact on those who replace Shpley.
The staff also believes that things have not been more or less the same from the sudden 2021 death of precious editorial publisher Fredd Hiatt. At the time, Professor Dan Kennedy of the Northeastern University journalism wrote that Hiatt’s unexpected passage marked the end of “a period of considerable stability at the top of the Washington Post masthead”.
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The changes of the owner of the Washington Post Jeff Bezos to the Opinions Section pushed the director of the David Shpley section outside the door. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images; Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
The “remarkable stability” is certainly not a term that post staff would use to describe their workplace nowadays.
Hiatt, who preceded the acquisition of Bezos of the document, was finally replaced by Shpley after a month’s process that saw the section of the opinions of the document go without a leader for the first half of 2022.
The staff of the opinions section is currently frustrated by the fact that it has worked through a long interregnum only three years ago, and now they are doing it again.
Bezos announced in February that Shpley had decided to move away when the founder of Amazon pushed for important changes to the post opinions section.
“We will write every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal freedoms and free markets. We will also cover other topics, but the points of view that oppose those pillars will be left published by others”, “ Bezos wrote on xannouncing the decision.
Bezos said that Shpley was offered the opportunity to continue leading the opinion section and decrease. Now, the employees of the Section of Opinions are aware of the fact that it takes some time to solicit the candidates and conduct interviews for such a high profile position and the staff is concerned that they will be without a leader for another prolonged period, or that hurrying the process will involve yet another transition in the near future if the rental is not up to the task.
Following Bezos’ decision not to approve Harris, 11 Post Option he wrote to declaration By calling the decision a “terrible mistake”. The decision also annoyed the staff and liberal readers, but Bezos repeatedly defended the decision.
David Shpley, editor of the Washington Post’s opinion section, resigned in February. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The eyebrows inside the pole were further raised since the day of the elections, while Bezos visited Mar-A-Lago e He attended the inauguration of Trumpindicating that their relationship once from Frosty has healed for the moment.
Trump said in a recent interview with Outkick’s Clay Travis Bezos denigrated Some members of the staff of his newspaper as “Pazzi”.
Paul Farhi, a longtime reporter of the Washington Post, left the newspaper in 2023, but keeps an eye on his former employer and believes that moral issues are looming.
“There is a great disappointment for Bezos and widespread suspicions and worries about his relationship with Trump,” Fax News Digital said.
“It is not yet clear how the renovation of Bezos of the editorial pages-not will be carried out I am sure that it will be more pro-trump, although this is also the prevalent suspicion,” added Farhi. “My meaning is that morality continues to be terrible.”
A Washington Post spokesman refused the comment on the “staff updates”, but observed a series of recent awards that the Opinions Section has reached, including the Oralth Award inauguration for explanatory relationships.
Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos attend the inauguration of President Donald Trump on the Capitol of the United States Rotunda on January 20, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
While the Opinions section awaits a new leader, other departments have also emerged both money and talent.
The Wall Street Journal reported in January that post “lost about $ 100 million” in 2024 while the subscriptions and the recovery of the announcements have precipitated they put the newspaper to the test. The paper has also seen layoffs And the best journalists, including Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager, Hannah Allam and Matea Gold remained everyone.
Even the longtime liberal publishing Eugene Robinson left the newspaper on Thursday, marking the last high -profile exit. Another liberal editorialist, Jennifer RubinHe fled from the post at the beginning of this year to protest from Bezos.
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Ann Telnaes, winner of the Pulitzer prize, Ann Telnaes resigned from the newspaper after his garments rejected his illustration depicting Bezos who made Trump races. The editorialist of the opinion Ruth Marcus recently announced that he was leaving the newspaper after a period of 40 years, citing Bezos’ plans to remodel the Opinions section.
Marcus said that Bezos and other technological tycoons who attended the inauguration are similar to being “Trump Trumps”.
President Donald Trump gives his inaugural speech during the 60th presidential inauguration in the Rotunda del Campidoglio of the United States in Washington, Monday 20 January 2025. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/pool via Reuters)
“His presence on the inaugural platform transmitted a support message to Trump who, I can say now, was inappropriate,” wrote Marcus in New Yorker.
Farhi said that the “positive side” is that the side of the news of the pole “made a superb relationship” on the efforts of Trump and doge leader Musk to repress the government’s expenses.
Farhi noticed that Bezos and the CEO Will Lewis abstained from the “intrude” in the coverage of new news and that Trump did not criticize the document on social media, which was a common practice during his first administration.
“It is possible that Bezos has come to a sort of respite with Trump, but at high costs for his integrity and the integrity of the post,” said Farhi.
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