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Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson has announced that he is leaving his work after 20 years in protest due to the editorial decisions made by his billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos.
“I wanted to inform you that I decided to leave the post,” the liberal columnist wrote to his colleagues in e -a Thursday first reported the New York Times. The “announced” significant shift “in the mission of our section made me decide that it was time for my next chapter.”
This was a direct reference at the Bezos’s announcement in February that the pages of an announcement of an announcement would begin the priority of pieces that defend “personal freedom and free markets”, although Robinson refrained from the appointment of the paper owner.
Jeff Bezos announces big changes on the Washington Post opinion page, the top editor goes down
The owner of the billion Washington Post Jeff Bezos has announced new changes in the Post opinion section. ((Photo Karwai Tang/Wireimage) Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images)
“Our most sincere congratulations to the beloved Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson on retirement,” Washington spokesman for Fox News Digital said in a statement. “For 45 years, his reporting and comments covered continents and beats, earning countless recognitions, including Pulitzer’s reward. A strong perspective of Eugene and impeccable integrity regularly shaped our public discourse, cementing their heritage as a leading voice in US journalism.”
Robinson confirmed to Fox News Digital that he withdrew only from the post, not from journalism, and there was no obligation to be on his next chapter.
Robinson, also MSNBC analyst, joined Post in 2005 and won the Pulitzer Award in 2009 for comment.
Bezos has made titles when he announced that his work “would write two pillars every day and defend two pillars: personal freedom and free markets” and that “they will leave the views of these columns to publish them.” This led to the ejection of the editor of the opinion of David Shipley, who opposed the Besos new mission.
The Washington Post Liberal Columnist Eugene Robinson has announced that he is leaving the work through the “significant shift” conducted by Besos. (FOX)
“This is a significant shift, it will not be easy and it will require 100% obligations – I respect his decision. We will seek a new editor of the opinion that will own this new direction,” Semos said at the time.
Robinson was not the only columnist who went as a result of this change. Ruth Marcus, a 40-year-old veteran’s work, left the place last month after she wrote A column that criticizes Bezos’s decision This was rebelled by her bosses.
“I stayed until I could – as long as the newspaper owner, Jeff Bezos, issued an edict that the opinions of opinions would be announced to concentrate on double pillars of” personal freedom and free markets “, and even more worrying that” the views will oppose these columns that will be published by others. I remained. Fast The publisher, Will Lewis, killed the column I endured last week, expressing my disagreement with this new direction. Lewis refused my request to meet, “Marcus wrote.
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Bezos said that the Washington Post will promote “personal freedom and free markets” and that “the views opposed to these columns will leave others to publish them.” (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
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Several other employees gave up after that Bezos stopped the paper approval then President Kamal Harris just days before the 2024 election.
