Jeff Bezos Revamps Washington Post opions section, leading editor to stop: NPR

The Washington Post The owner of Jeff Bezos attended a luncheon after the inauguration of President Trump in January. Bezos says that the newspaper editorial section will only publish “to support and protect both columns: personal liberation and free market.”

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place Opinion Editors David Shipley, being recruited by Bezos from Bloomberg opinions in 2022, chose to resume instead of watching sections of paper sections.

“We will write every day to support and protect two pillars: personal liberty and free market,” bezos wrote a memo with staff announced the changes. “We will also cover other subjects, but the views opposed the pillars will be left to publish others.”

Sections Op-Ed sections of applications include objections to years. The term “op-ed” is literally a focus for bits running “contrary to editorial pages” which often conflict with a parititorial line of a publicisher. But Bezos describes that practice before the end.

“There is a time when a newspaper, especially a local monopoly, may have seen it as a service that the reader is carried out with a wide range of views,” Bezos said. “Now, the Internet makes that job.”

Shocked within the newsroom

In an hour’s meeting of opinion authors, Shipley said he did not know what the future, according to an audience speaking because they did not permit public speaking.

Shipley said he likes a “wider place,” but that bezos seek “a focus (opinion) report.”

Bezos justifies his decision on the Memo to staff. “I am america and for America, and proud to do it,” he wrote. “And a great part of America’s success is the freedom of Economic Realm and everywhere.”

The decision arouses fresh shock and fear of paper. After senior News editors the concerns of a Wednesday, Executive Eduit Matt Murray did not give a sign that he would disrupt the news coverage, according to two people with direct knowledge. A spokesperson for place confirmed his spokes.

After the sun, Murray sent a newsroom memo to highlight the point: (Murray and Bezos didn’t answer requests for commentary.)

place Associate Editor David Maraniss, a legendary reporter that the interaction of the newspaper has been repeated for more than four decades, wrote to Bluesky that he will never write again as bezos have its owner.

“A damn step after another, the bezos ranching at place Editorial policy, “Maraniss wrote.” Now he took it completely. The old WASHINGTON POST have gone. “

A writer for the Opinions section tells NPR that he is “wounded,” add, “leadership things.”

NPR talks to six people with direct knowledge of events for this article. They are given the ability to speak unknown because they are not allowed to talk about internal items on paper.

Shipley did not respond to requests for commentary. According to a person with direct knowledge, Shipley told bezos that the new method exceeds the placeThe promise of holding power to account.

Bezos new methods are different from severe Terms of Trump

Bezos stands next to the newspaper report to the first Trump administration. At that time, the place Adopted the motto “democracy died in the dark.” It won the pulitzer prizes for coverage of Entos Attack in US Capitol and, earlier, at Russia’s involvement In 2016 presidency elections.

More recently, Bezos’s decision last October to Kill the Editorial of Harris flowed a furor inside and out of paper, the leading editorial writers to travel and More than 300,000 people cancel their digital subscription a day. (The place It says it won some subscribers to return and garner some new subscribers to open weeks in Trump’s second term.)

David Shipley resigns as an opinion editor of The Washington Post After owning Jeff Bezos declared that he likes the section just focus on supporting “personal liberation and free market.” In this 2024 photograph, Shipley celebrated and the newsroom celebrating three prize prizes.

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As a practical matter, Plaley argues Bezos, the Wall Street JournalPro-Marketes Pages in Pro Markets have a similar policy for decades. As the decision not to publish Harris endorsement, Shipleley’s arguments fell into deaf deaf.

In his memo with staff, Bezos praised Shipley and wrote that he offered the editor’s chance to lead reaction reactions. “I suggested to him if the answer is not ‘hell yes,’ then need ‘no,'” Bezos wrote.

the place Aggressive covered the new administration. But bezos appears to accept the president’s return. Bezos personally paid $ 1 million in Trump’s inagure fund. He and his Fiancée Lauren Sánchez traveled to Florida’s Florida in Florida, Mar-A-Lugo, to socialize with the trumpets. And, with other digital leaders, Bezos sits behind the President while he swore for a second term.

Opinion editors in constant place

The two-year bearing of ShipleLy brings for the section, with two Pulitzer prizes and two goeb awards. But his stand undercut the recent decisions of Bezos, especially with Harris endorsement.

When Shipley decided to hold a cartoon from the Pulitzer-winning staffer Ann telnaes from Bezos from the publication, he did not decide on the merits, without making punches. The cartoon was described as bezos who sent himself together with other tech titans before Trump.

“Not all editorial judgments are a reflection of a bad force,” says Shipleley in a statement shared at the time of NPR. “My decision is guided by the fact that we publish a column of the same subject such as cartoon and is still scheduled in a column – it’s a satire – for publishing against repetition.”

Chacica told fellow private he understood, given the moment, it was difficult to conform his actual motivation.

The paper There is a veteran veteran talent From the opinion and sides of the news since the news is broken editorial. place The journalists left for ATLANTICTHE New York TimesTHE Wall Street Journaland CNN among other outlets.

but place The publisher and chief executive Lewis celebrates the change in Wednesday. Lewis previously served for six years on the same role in minutes of a meetingowned by Trump Ally and Conservative Media Himinate Rupert Murdoch. He supports the same way with place.

Bezos hired Lewis, for his faith that the British journalist could establish better bridges in the trumpet and the conservatives. As well as serving Murdoch as an executive for a decade, Lewis was previously conservative editor Telegraph In the UK and later served as a consultant for Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“I am very pleased with this new explanation and transparency, and cannot wait to see this live in our section of opinion. Every day,” Lewis said to a notes of staff. “It’s not about siding any political party. This is about the crystal about what we stand for a newspaper to serve in America and for all Americans.”