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Washington Post

Post Publisher Fred Ryan and owner Jeff Bezos.

The WaPo’s Post-Trump Blues Continue

During the Trump years, the fantastic owner-editor Bezos-Baron package stripped the Post of its Politico-purge complacency and vied to make it the true national paper of record. So what happens now?
Dylan Byers • September 21, 2022
Dylan Byers • September 14, 2022
VandeHei in the Arena
Jim VandeHei, the co-founder and CEO of Axios and co-founder of Politico.
Weeks after Axios’s $525 million sale, Washington’s most influential media C.E.O. recalls some lessons from the Politico era and Axios’s ascent. And then offers some advice for the next generation of D.C. disruptors, like Punchbowl and Semafor.
Dylan Byers • September 9, 2022
Semafor Is Almost Ready for Prime Time
Ben Smith
Some Friday notes on the hottest topics in our media industry: Semafor, The Washington Post, and the Today show.
Kopit Levien
Dylan Byers • August 12, 2022
The ‘Times’ & Its Times
A little tickle from an activist investor throws into stark relief the Times Company’s subscriber journey and portfolio growth—especially when juxtaposed with its peer set.
Joe Biden and MBS
Dylan Byers • July 15, 2022
Biden’s WaPo Headache
The president, whose polling has hit a Trump-like nadir, has his fair share of nemeses: the far left, Joe Manchin, Trump and DeSantis, and now perhaps the hometown paper, The Washington Post.
Fred Ryan
Tara Palmeri • July 7, 2022
The WaPo’s Momentous Non-Bennet-Quake
After months of speculation and second-guessing, Washington Post Co. C.E.O. Fred Ryan has selected Fred Hiatt’s successor as editorial page editor, one of the most august and coveted political posts in this town.
Fred Ryan
Tara Palmeri • June 30, 2022
WaPo Sweepstakes & The Cassidy Hutchinson Market
The plot thickens as antsy Post staffers wonder whom C.E.O. Fred Ryan will pick to succeed the beloved Fred Hiatt. Meanwhile, more news on Susan Rice’s ascent and Cassidy Hutchinson’s next moves.
Joe Kahn
Eriq Gardner • June 20, 2022
The Times vs. Twitter, Round Two
Some of America’s most august media companies are struggling to get reporters off social media, where advocacy and backbiting have become a reputational risk. A series of legal tests could make that much harder.
Bob Chapek
Dylan Byers • June 10, 2022
Chapek’s Purge & The WaPo Aftermath
New reporting on the two biggest scandals roiling the media industry.
Washington Post Pulitzer
Dylan Byers • June 9, 2022
The Washington Post’s Twitter Fragility
A recent and bizarrely evolving Twitter scandal has placed D.C.’s leading media institution in the middle of the political, or at least office politics, conversation.