“Every indication I’ve gotten, everything I’ve seen, is that he believes in the importance of an independent newsroom,” Ms. Buzbee said of Mr. Bezos in an interview on Tuesday. She was born in Walla Walla, Wash., and grew up in the Bay Area and the suburbs of Dallas and Kansas City. Her father-in-law, Richard Buzbee, who died in 2018, was the publisher and editor of The Hutchinson News and Olathe Daily News in Kansas. Ms. Buzbee, who has been working out of New York, will move to Washington when she takes the Post job. The A.P.’s president and chief executive, Gary Pruitt, said in a statement that Ms. Buzbee had been “an exceptional leader.”

Source: New York Times May 11, 2021 13:57 UTC