Washington Post Opinion Section staff are waiting with concern for new leaders

Washington Post The recent months have faced the departure of talent, with the rest of the staff waiting to see where the “Democracy Dies in the Dark” paper is heading, especially in the Opinion section.

Billionaire owner Jeff Bezos has routinely plagued current and former employees as he stopped approving former vice president Kamala Harris in 2024 on the editorial page, urging several staff members to leave the paper. His latest well-known decision put David Shipley, editor of the section that pushed the opinion out of the door and wrapped the unit around until the exchange was named, staff said. Fox News Digital.

Disappointed Post employees feel that it’s not the best time to work in the opinion section of a paper and don’t know what Bezos’ relationship with the president Donald Trump It will affect those who will replace Shipley.

Also, staff feel that things weren’t exactly the same as Fred Hyatt, the editor of his precious editor page, suddenly died in 2021. At the time, Professor Dan Kennedy of Northeast University Journalism wrote that Hyatt’s unexpected passage marked the end of “an incredible age of stability at the top of the Washington Post’s masthead.”

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“Amazing stability” is not the term used by post staff to describe their current location of employment.

Hyatt, which preceded the Bezos paper acquisition, was eventually replaced by Shipley after a months-long process in which the opinion section of the paper became leaderless in the first half of 2022.

The opinion section staff are now unhappy with working through regnum for a long time just three years ago, but now they’re doing it again.

Bezos announced in February that Shipley had decided to leave when the Amazon founders called for major changes to the Post’s Opinion section.

“We write every day to support and defend two pillars: personal freedom and the free market. Of course we cover other topics as well, but the perspectives against those pillars will be exposed by others.” bezos wrote on xannounces the decision.

Bezos said Shipley was offered the opportunity to continue leading the opinion section and declined. Currently, employees in the Opinion section recognize that it will take quite a bit of time to recruit applicants and conduct interviews for such a well-known position, and staff are concerned that if they do not have another long-term leader or employment is not a challenge, it will lead to yet another transition in the near future.

11 post-opinion columnists following Bezos’ decision not to support Harris I wrote it statement Calling a decision a “bad mistake.” The decision also plagued liberal staff and readers alike, but Bezos has repeatedly defended the decision.

Bezos defends Wapo as the “right” option for the president: “I am extremely proud of the decision.”

As Bezos visited Malago, eyebrows in the post have been published more since election day, Attended Trump’s inauguration ceremonyshowing that their former relationship has now been healed.

Trump claimed in a recent interview with Outkick’s Clay Travis Bezos is light para Some of his own newspaper staff were “crazy people.”

Longtime Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi left his paper in 2023 but has been paying attention to his former employers and believes the issue of morale will grow.

“Bezos has been a huge disappointment and there are widespread doubts and concerns about his relationship with Trump,” Farhe told Fox News Digital.

“It’s still unclear how the editorial page remake will unfold. I don’t know if it will lead to more cards, but that’s also a general doubt,” Farhi added. “My feeling is that morale continues to be terrible.”

A Washington Post spokesman declined to comment on “HR updates,” but pointed to a series of recent praise that the opinion achieved, including the first Goldsmith Award for an explanatory report.

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The Opinion section awaits new leaders, but other departments are bleeding both money and talent too.

The Wall Street Journal reported in January that it had posted in 2024 that it had lost about $100 million as the plunge in subscriptions and advertising revenues hit the paper. It is in the paper I also saw layoffs Top journalists such as Philip Rucker, Josh Dorsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Scheller, Tyler Pager, Hannah Alam and Mattia Gold are all still there.

Longtime liberal columnist Eugene Robinson also left his paper on Thursday, marking the latest famous exit. Another liberal columnist, Jennifer Rubinfled the post earlier this year in Bezos’ protests.

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Post Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Anne Ternus resigned from the paper after her boss rejected an illustration of Bezos depicting her grove to Trump. Opinion columnist Ruth Marcus recently announced that he would be leaving the paper after 40 years of mission.

Marcus said Bezos and other technicians who attended the inauguration were similar to Trump’s “trophies.”

“His presence on the first platform conveyed a message of support for Trump. New Yorker.

Fahh said the “bright side” was that the Post’s news side was “making great reports” about Trump and Doge leader Elon Musk’s efforts to crack down on government spending.

Farhe has noticed that Bezos and CEO Will Lewis refrained from “interference” in straight news reports, and that Trump has not criticized the papers on social media.

“Bezos may have come to some kind of ceasefire with Trump, but he has made a great deal of sacrifice to his integrity and the integrity of the post,” Farhi said.

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Hanna Panreck, Rachel Del Guidice and Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

David Rutz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.