The Washington Post said on Saturday (February 7, 2026) its CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, was leaving effective immediately, just days after the storied newspaper owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made drastic job cuts that angered readers. Mr Lewis, who is English, has been replaced by Jeff D’Onofrio, a former CEO of the social media platform Tumblr, who joined the Post as chief financial officer last year, the paper announced. Sports, graphics and local news departments were sharply scaled back and the paper’s daily podcast, Post Reports, was suspended, local media reported. Hundreds turned out on Thursday (February 5, 2026) at a protest in front of the paper’s headquarters in downtown Washington. Marty Baron, the Post’s executive editor until 2021, said that the job cuts ranked “among the darkest days in the history of one of the world’s greatest news organisations.”

Source: The Hindu February 08, 2026 08:21 UTC