This week, Jeff Bezos began the process of conducting in-person interviews with the final two candidates for the Washington Post publisher and C.E.O. position, the last step in a months-long search for an executive leader who can reverse the fortunes of a storied news company still on the hunt for a vision—and a sustainable revenue model—in the post-Trump, post-Marty Baron era.

One of the two finalists, according to sources familiar with the matter, is Josh Steiner, the investor and Bloomberg L.P. senior adviser who I identified as a leading candidate last week. Steiner makes a whole lot of sense for a number of reasons, notably the fact that he’s a former Lazard M.D. who also grinded away for years in the salt mines of government. I have ample reason to believe that the other may be Will Lewis, the former Dow Jones C.E.O. and Wall Street Journal publisher who recently launched a Gen Z-focused media startup called The News Movement. (The Post declined to comment.) Lewis is also on the board of the Associated Press and was once a finalist for the BBC Director General position. Earlier this year, he received knighthood at the nomination of former prime minister Boris Johnson.