After editor’s departure, Washington Post’s publisher faces questions about phone hacking storiesNEW YORK (AP) — The Washington Post’s new publisher is facing questions about whether he made efforts to conceal — in his own newspaper and elsewhere — his involvement in a British phone hacking scandal from his time working for Rupert Murdoch a decade ago. The publisher and CEO, Will Lewis, has denied any wrongdoing in Britain and at the Post. The Times said Lewis told Buzbee that it would be a lapse in judgment to run the story, which was eventually published. “I know trust has been lost because of scars from the past and the back-and-forth from this week,” Lewis wrote. One of the editors he has hired in the Post’s restructuring, Robert Winnett, worked with Lewis at the Daily Telegraph.

Source: Washington Post June 07, 2024 19:18 UTC