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Billionaire and Amazon creator Jeff Bezos has actually been apparently shocking the Washington Postafter the paper stimulated serious reaction for surging a recommendation of Kamala Harris on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump's triumph.
Jeff Bezos triggered a firestorm in the political world this year when he apparently actioned in to surge the paper's editorial board from backing Kamala Harris, which then triggered an exodus of over 250,000 customers and a whirlwind of reaction from different media figures. Considered that the paper has actually been hemorrhaging profits to the tune of $77 million for well over a year, editors and supervisors have actually been covertly stressing behind closed doors over Bezos's strategies to make the Post practical once again.
“The level of anger is through the roofing, and worry is likewise through the roofing system. There's big issue that Bezos is going to end,” one expert informed New York City Magazine
The Amazon creator's very first agenda was tapping publisher Will Lewis as the paper's CEO, sidelining managing editor Sally Buzbee “by attempting to put her in charge of a recently developed “3rd newsroom” (concentrated on service journalism and social networks, to name a few developments) while intending on generating a pal from the U.K., Robert Winnett, to take her old task managing the tradition newsroom,” per NY Magazine
Buzbee stopped, seeing the relocation as a prospective demotion, which then put previousWall Street Journaleditor Matt Murray under short-lived control of the newsroom through the election, stimulating a possible power battle as detailed by NY Mag:
Now Murray is angling for a variation of the traditional leading newsroom task, supervising both newsrooms, brand-new and old. And he has actually moved his household to D.C. There's no assurance he'll get it. The look for the task is underway and anticipated to conclude by the end of the year. Patty Stonesifer, a long time Bezos confidante who acted as interimPostCEO before Lewis came aboard, is associated with the procedure, I'm informed, together with Lewis and Bezos. Prospects provided memos recently. The other internal prospect is handling editor Matea Gold. (ThePostapproached some alumni– previous handling editor Steven Ginsberg, who is presently running The Athletic, and Kevin Merida, a previousPosthandling editor who had actually invested 22 years at the paper before a three-year stint running the Los AngelesTimes— early on in the search procedure, however neither were interested.)
Staffers at the Washington Post were less-than-enthusiastic about Murray's management when pushed, with one expert informing NY Mag that he pressed “totally the incorrect message” by informing individuals to handle inbound modifications.
“The message ought to be ‘We're refraining from doing anything various journalistically, and I'm going to be out there safeguarding you guys,'” the staffer stated.
