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Sally Buzbee

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Dylan Byers • June 21, 2024

Inside the Post Coup

The Buzbee smoke bomb wasn’t the only attempt to defenestrate embattled Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis. Earlier this month, journalists on the foreign desk discussed a plan to dig for unflattering information on their new publisher and editor—a new ethical wrinkle in a scandal ostensibly about journalistic principles.
Dylan Byers • June 19, 2024
The Will Lewis Living Wake
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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.
Dylan Byers • June 12, 2024
The Will Lewis Forgiveness Tour
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News and notes on two D.C. media anxieties of varying proportions: The Lewis redemption rodeo at the WaPo and Mark Thompson’s quiet rejiggering over at CNN.
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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.
Sally Buzbee
Dylan Byers • June 5, 2024
‘Post’ Mortem
The real and surprising story behind Sally Buzbee’s departure from The Washington Post.
Sally Buzbee
Dylan Byers • November 8, 2023
When Will Met Sally
News and notes on Will Lewis’s maiden voyage at the Post and Kevin Mayer’s return to the podium.
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Dylan Byers • January 20, 2023
WWJD: What Would Jeff Do?
Bezos’s visit to The Washington Post set off alarms in the building. But if the world’s fourth richest man has plans for the nation’s second most important paper, he’s keeping them to himself. He’s in listening mode.
Fred Ryan
Dylan Byers • December 14, 2022
Post Apocalyptic
A brutally awkward town hall amplified long-simmering anxieties within The Washington Post, which is suffering from its own leadership blues and deja vu anxiety about receding from relevance—again.
Bob Iger, Tim Cook, and Eddy Cue at Sun Valley
Dylan Byers • November 23, 2022
Igermania, The WaPo & Zaz
News and notes on the interior monologue of the media industry in semi-pre-holiday-repose.
Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee and C.EO. and publisher Fred Ryan.
Dylan Byers • November 18, 2022
Fred Ryan’s Re-Election
Questions about Ryan’s leadership have become widespread at the Post, where the gulf between the paper and the Times widens, and the finger-pointing has taken hold.