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

The irony of #WilliamLewis declaring that the #WashingtonPost will no longer endorse #uspol candidates for president to remain 'independent' is that true independence would be publishing's his staff's endorsement of #KamalaHarris against the wishes of his employer #JeffBezos.

Ergo #WilliamLewis is a #rentboy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement/

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

Seems strange that #WilliamLewis, publisher of the #washingtonpost and an employer of journalists, would choose 'independence' rather than condemn a candidate who threatens to imprison him and his workforce. But I guess, "go with the billionaire who brought you", right?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement/

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