Barely five months after joining The Washington Post as publisher and CEO, William Lewis recently began discussing a plan with his top executives for dramatically restructuring the newsroom. His timing, though, drew resistance from executive editor Sally Buzbee. Buzbee’s abrupt exit after three years at The Post — which even her own department heads learned about late Sunday in a companywide email from Lewis — left the newsroom reeling. Murray, a former editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal, vowed to uphold journalism standards and The Post’s legacy. She had been hired in 2021 by The Post’s previous publisher, Fred Ryan, after the retirement of former executive editor Martin Baron.

Source: Washington Post June 04, 2024 00:54 UTC