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IN Washington Post He has faced the exodus of talent in recent months, and the remaining employees, especially in the opinion section, are on pins and needles waiting to see where “democracy is going in the darkness.”
The owner of the billionaire Jeff Semos routinely expelled current and former employees since he famously stopped the editorial page to approve of former Vice President Kamala Harris 2024, which encouraged several employees to leave the newspaper. His last high decision was pushed by the editor of the opinion of the opinion David Shipyy from the door and put the unit in a recessed until the replacement was appointed, the staff said Fox News Digital.
Discouraged employees believe it is not the best time to work in a compartment for the opinion of work and are not sure if Besos’s relationship with the president Donald Trump It will affect which replaces Shipley.
The staff also believe that things were not quite the same from the sudden editors of the editor -in -chief in 2021 Fredd Hiatta. At the time, professor of journalism Northeastern University Dan Kennedy wrote that Hiatt’s unexpected passage marked the end of the “period of extraordinary stability at the top of the Washington Post head”.
The changes to the owner of the Washington Post Post -a Jeff Bezos in the opinion section were pushed by the editor of the department David Shipley from the door. (Jonathan Newton/Washington Post via Getty Images; Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
“Exceptional stability” is certainly not a term that employees would use to describe their jobs today.
Hiatt, who was eventually replaced by Shipley after a months -long procedure in which the section on the opinion of the paper was without a leader in the first half of 2022.
The opinions staff are currently frustrated that they did through the long Interregnum just three years ago, and now they are doing it.
In February, Semos announced that Shipley decided to deviate when the founder of the Amazon had asked for major changes in the Postal Company’s compartment.
“We will write every day in support and defend two pillars: personal freedom and free markets. We will cover other topics, of course, but the views opposed to these columns will be published by others,” “ Bezos wrote on xannouncing the decision.
Bezos said that Shipley was offered an opportunity to continue to run an opinion section and refused. Now the employees in the opinion are aware that it takes a lot of time to seek the applicants and perform interviews for such a high -profile position, and employees are worried that either without the leader they will be without a leader in the second extended period, or that the rush will result in another transition in the near future if the rent does not occur.
After Bezos’s decision not to support Harris, 11 columnists after opinion wrote a statement Calling a decision with a “terrible mistake”. The decision also exterminated liberal employees and readers, but Bezos repeatedly defended the decision.
Washington Post David Shipley’s opinion editor departed in February. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Eyebrows inside the post were erected even more than the day of choice, while Bezos visited MAR-a-LAG and attended Trump’s inaugurationwhich showed that their once Frosty had healed the relationship for now.
Trump is in a recent interview with Outkick’s Glina Travis that Bezos belittled Some of his newspapers as “crazy people”.
Longtime journalist Washington Post Paul Farhi left the newspaper in 2023, but carefully monitors his former employer and believes that moral issues are big.
“There is a great disappointment in Besos and a wide doubt and concern about his relationship with Trump,” Frohi told Fox News Digital.
“Still unclear how the bezos will be reworked by the editorial pages playing no sure that it will be more pro-trump, although this is also a prevailing doubt,” Farhi added. “My feeling is that morality is still terrible.”
A Washington Post spokesman rejected a comment on the “staff update”, but noted a number of recent awards scored by the opinion section, including the Goldsmith’s inaugural award for reporting explanation.
Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos participate in the inauguration of President Donald Trump in the US Rotund Capitol on January 20, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
While the section is waiting for a new leader about the opinion, other departments are also baptized by money and talent.
Wall Street Journal reported in January that the post “lost about $ 100 million” in 2024, because they collected subscriptions and revenues from AD on paper. There are paper also seen release And top journalists, including Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager, Hannah Allam and Matea Gold.
The longtime Liberal columnist Eugene Robinson also left the newspaper on Thursday, marking the latest exit. Another liberal columnist, Jennifer RubinThey fled earlier this year in protest to Bezos.
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Post Pulitzer’s award -winning cartoonist Ann Telnes resigned from paper after her bosses rejected her illustration that shows the Breed Growling Trump. Thinking columnist Ruth Marcus recently announced that she was leaving his work after a 40-year stay, citing yousees’ plans for transforming an opinion section.
Marcus said they were Bezos and the other technological tycoons that attended the inauguration similar to Trump’s “trophies”.
President Donald Trump gives his introductory address during 60. Inauguration of the President in Rotunda in the US Capitol in Washington, on Monday, January 20, 2025. (Julia Demree Nikhinson/Pool via Reuters)
“His presence on the inauguration platform conveyed a message of support to Trump that, now I can say it, inappropriate,” Marcus wrote in New Yorker.
Farhi said that the “bright side” was that the news on the mail was “excellently reporting” about the efforts of Trump leader and Doge Elon Musk to break state consumption.
Farhi noticed that the Bezos and executive director Will Lewis refrained from “mixing” in the right coverage and that Trump had not criticized work on social media, which was a common practice during his first administration.
“It is possible that Bezos has come to a trump of Trump, but at the great price of his integrity and integrity of fasting,” Farhi said.
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Fox News Digital’s Hanna Panreck, Rachel del Guidice and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
David Rutz Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
