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And Then There Was Matt…

After six excruciating months, Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis is naming acting executive editor Matt Murray as his new editorial leader—a fitting capstone to a lackluster search effort that never quite came to fruition.

Matt Murray could be named the top editor of the washington post.
In recent days, Matt has made some internal moves signaling that he will remain atop the Post, including hiring his former Journal managing editor Karen Pensiero to serve in a newly created position of standards editor. Photo: Robert Miller/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Dylan Byers
December 20, 2024

Next year, presumably on the earlier side of the first quarter, Washington Post publisher and C.E.O. Will Lewis intends to announce that he has appointed acting executive editor Matt Murray as the newsroom’s permanent chief, according to sources familiar with his plans. The news, which Will has been delaying for unspecified reasons, will bring an anticlimactic end to a long and tortured recruitment effort at a storied paper that—as you know, dear reader—has endured a rather miserable and ignominious few years of financial irresponsibility, soul-searching, and chaos.