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Washington Post

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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.
Dylan Byers • June 19, 2024
Dylan Byers • June 14, 2024
What About Rob?
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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.
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 8, 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 6, 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?
Mark Thompson
Dylan Byers • May 17, 2024
English Patience
So many newsrooms seem to be waiting on newly appointed leaders—a number of them British—to swoop in and restore their swagger. Alas, the more you parse their pablum-laden marketing pitches, the more it all looks like the same old playbooks applied to new platforms.
The layoffs at the LA Times, staggering as they were, belied the true extent of the damage the paper has endured under Patrick Soon-Shiong.
Dylan Byers • January 25, 2024
A Tale of Two City Papers
A talmudic reading of the agony and anxiety bubbling around the L.A. Times, and the cautious optimism brimming from Will Lewis’s post-layoffs Washington Post.
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Dylan Byers • January 6, 2024
Post Modernism Theories
Does Will Lewis, the Brit who just took over The Washington Post, have the hardest job in media? One week in and Alex MacCallum is off to CNN, and it turns out that his company’s traffic has dipped by more than 50 percent in the past few years.
Mark Thompson
Dylan Byers • December 28, 2023
Zaz’s Whale, Zucker’s Chase & The British Guys
As the year ends, a talmudic reading of the four most consequential plotlines bewitching the media industry as it enters 2024.