Baron told Bezos that the Post was suffering from a leadership crisis and urged him to get involved. He wants the Post to think big,” a person who knows Bezos told me. Post staffers, ruminating on the owner’s mortality, joked a little nervously to one another, “Do you think MacKenzie likes us?,” referring to Bezos’s wife at the time. The board idea came up in the Post newsroom again earlier this month. “To be sure, it can’t be business as usual at The Post,” Bezos wrote in his reassure-the-newsroom email last week.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2024 19:02 UTC