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Dylan Byers • October 30, 2024

Bezos’s Inferno

The latest news, notes, and hunger cries from within The Washington Post, which finds itself embroiled in a largely predictable self-immolation of its own design—the latest scandal produced by an owner, management team, and rank-and-file that appear to operate a little too comfortably in opposition to one another.
Dylan Byers • October 25, 2024
Washington on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
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The decisions by Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong to spike endorsements of Kamala Harris have created an uproar inside The Washington Post and LA Times, respectively. Is this a genuine gripe, an assault on democracy, or simply the latest grievance consuming a legacy media industry mad as hell and unwilling to take it any longer?
Dylan Byers • August 2, 2024
A Time to Will
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Having survived a multifront newsroom fracas, Will Lewis endured another couple of love taps this week about his ongoing credibility challenges—one from Folkenflik, another from the Times. Now he faces an even thornier question: With the worst presumably behind him, how will he lead The Washington Post into the future?
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William D. Cohan • June 26, 2024
Bezos’ Rubber Room & Shari’s Plan B
News and notes on the dual obsessions of the Sconset set: whether Shari will reconsider the private equity pill and break up Paramount; and how Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis may be taking a page from Wall Street’s layoff playbook with their plan for a “third newsroom” at The Washington Post.
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Dylan Byers • June 19, 2024
The Will Lewis Living Wake
News and notes on the developing and shape-shifting scandal engulfing The Washington Post—the newsroom revolt, the Bezos response, the Barr return, the Merida tidbit, and the coming denouement of Act I.
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Dylan Byers • June 14, 2024
What About Rob?
Two weeks into The Washington Post’s nervous breakdown, Will Lewis’s time in the barrel may be ending. Rob Winnett’s turn may be just beginning.
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Dylan Byers • June 7, 2024
License to Will
The latest anxieties and dueling narratives emanating from the expanding Washington Post blast zone on K Street.
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Dylan Byers • June 5, 2024
‘Post’ Mortem
The real and surprising story behind Sally Buzbee’s departure from The Washington Post.
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Dylan Byers • May 22, 2024
Will in the World
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis finally unveiled his plan to fix Jeff Bezos’s media heirloom—a mix of new subscription tiers, some management realignment, and other uncontroversial ideas. Is this the best he could find in the McKinsey handbook, or is it merely a prelude to the next plan?
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Eriq Gardner • March 4, 2024
Bezos’s “Superstar” Nightmare & Ari’s Legal Headaches
The surreal legal drama around how Musk’s $55 billion clawback could ricochet onto Jeff Bezos in their aerospace rivalry. Plus, notes on Ari Emanuel’s ongoing headaches with Vince McMahon.