Jessica Elgot et al.: Leak exposes Washington Post boss Will Lewis’s role as secret adviser to Boris Johnson while PM. Extensive meetings in 2022 between Lewis, then vice-chair of AP, and Johnson were not disclosed in transparency records

#WashingtonPost #williamlewis #borisjohnson #Tory #corruption #media
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/10/washington-post-boss-will-lewis-secret-adviser-boris-johnson-leak

Jonathan V. Last: The Washington Post is dying. I can tell you “how.” But not “why.” Is Jeff #Bezos killing the newspaper on purpose or by accident?

#journalism #media #TheWashingtonPost #WilliamLewis
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-is-dying-jeff-bezos-will-lewis

William Lewis, publisher of the #WaPo, writes about a "we" that has decided"not to publish the ready-to-go endorsement of #Harris.Who is this we other than billionaire #JeffBezos and #WilliamLewis?

Read #BenjaminWittes's excellent piece on today's journalistic travesty:

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-bends-the-knee

#HarrisWalz2024
#AnticipatoryObedience

Anne Applebaum: Readers Don’t Trust Dirty Tricks: What worked for British #tabloids won’t work for The Washington Post.

"Facing a newsroom revolt, Winnett on Friday resigned from the Post editorship. Back in London, some of his British colleagues rallied to his defense in an amusingly partisan manner. The #Murdoch-owned Times wrote an article about Winnett that made a glancing reference to the money-for-data and other ethics stories that had roiled the Post newsroom, focusing instead on a claim that the “staff revolt” against Winnett had begun when he “pointed out errors in the newspaper’s coverage of the war in Gaza.” In The Sunday Times, Gerard Baker, a former editor of The Wall Street Journal, dismissed the “sanctimonious” Post reporters and called the newspaper “a reliable mouthpiece for left-wing, woke, progressive ideology”—language that could just as easily have been used by Sean Hannity."

#williamlewis #washingtonpost
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/washington-post-will-lewis-publisher/678755/

Charlotte Klein: “I Can’t Sugarcoat It Anymore”: Will Lewis Bluntly Defends Washington Post Shake-Up

"hen Washington Post publisher Will Lewis and new interim executive editor Matt Murray met with staff Monday, the newsroom was still coming to terms with the abrupt exit of Sally Buzbee, who had led the paper since May 2021.

'Everyone was pretty shocked with your email last night,' one reporter said at the meeting, according to a source present. The reporter suggested that “the most cynical interpretation sort of feels like you chose two of your buddies to come in and help run the Post, and we now have four white men running three newsrooms,” and expressed surprise at this development given Lewis’s prior commitments to diversity."

#washingtonpost #williamlewis
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/washington-post-shakeup

The Washington Post is about to embrace the darkness: SFGATE columnist Drew Magary on a major shakeup at the Washington Post

"It’s easy to execute a news dump when you’re one of the scant few remaining places that bother to properly cover news at all. Such was the case earlier this week at Jeff #Bezos’ Washington Post, when executive editor Sally Buzbee — who had replaced venerated former news chief Marty Baron — was unceremoniously forced out by Post leadership after just three years at the helm. The news that Buzbee was given the gate arrived via a companywide email late Sunday night, seemingly without much in the way of advance notice down the masthead: Many of Buzbee’s closest colleagues were caught off guard by the move, Vanity Fair reported, as were the rank and file."

@thepoliticalcat #washingtonpost #williamlewis #murdoch
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/washington-post-sally-buzbee-shakeup-darkness-19498555.php

Margaret Sullivan: If the Washington Post is to fly again, its journalists must share the cockpit

"Journalists don’t delude themselves that newsrooms are democracies; they know they don’t get a vote. But successful newsrooms aren’t dictatorships, either.

If Lewis is going to be successful in his quest to make the Post soar again, he’ll need to have the journalists with him all the way. Right now, they’re not. And that means a course correction is in order."

#washingtonpost #williamlewis #journalism
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/04/washington-post-sally-buzbee-will-lewis