Having lost 50% of its audience since 2000, the Washington Post fired its top editor, Sally Buzbee, and replaced her with a Murdoch media veteran in a seismic shakeup executed by new publisher and chief executive William Lewis just months before the high-stakes 2024 presidential election.
The sharp-elbowed Lewis, a British-born media exec, who joined the paper last November, had clashed with Buzbee in recent months over his aggressive plan to carve up the newsroom and Buzbee’s oversight, which pushed the editor to resign Sunday, according to reports. ...
By the end of the meeting, a source said Lewis’ overall message was for staffers to just “get with the program” without spelling out the potential consequence.
At the all-hands meeting, Lewis introduced Buzbee’s temporary replacement, Matt Murray [left] — the former editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal. Lewis, who had worked with Murray at The Journal, said the 58-year-old editor will helm the newsroom through the election and then transition to run a new division focused on service and social media journalism.
Robert Winnett [right], another friend of Lewis and fellow Brit who ran The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph — and who gained notoriety for coverage of an expenses scandal in UK Parliament that cost numerous MPs their jobs — will take over the newsroom after that.
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Photo credits: Wikipedia (Murray, left)
and The Telegraph (Winnett, right)
