Washington Post publisher and chief executive Fred Ryan, who presided over explosive growth during the Trump years but couldn’t avert the effects of the industry’s downturn over the past two years, said Monday he’s leaving the publication after nearly a decade. Ryan, 68, will lead the newly formed Center on Public Civility at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the newspaper said. Its digital site had 139 million visitors in March 2020, and was down to 58 million in December 2022, according to the Post. “I have no doubt that the high-quality journalism of the standard of The Washington Post will always be successful,” he said. Ryan has led the Post “through a period of innovation, journalistic excellence and growth,” Bezos said in a memo to the newspaper’s staff.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2023 16:35 UTC