Immediately after Trump's conviction, the editor-in-chief of the Washington Post was fired for 'weakening reporting and destroying diversity'
Immediately after Republican candidate Trump's guilty verdict, the progressive Washington Post suddenly fired its editor-in-chief, who had the upper hand in reporting ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
On the night of the 2nd, WP management notified employees of the dismissal of the editor-in-chief, divided the newsroom into three departments, and appointed all temporary managers as white men, thereby destroying diversity and weakening reporting.
The New York Times, which obtained the minutes of a late-night conference call in which WP CEO Will Lewis announced the replacement of Editor-in-Chief Sally Buzbee, said, “According to the transcript, WP political reporter Ashley Parker asked CEO Lewis how the newspaper made this decision. “I asked him if he had taken it down, and he said there could be a skeptical interpretation that Lewis simply hired his associates to help run the post,” he said on the 2nd.
The editor-in-chief's dismissal comes on the heels of Trump's Republican guilty verdict as the press prepares to cover the presidential election in its home base, including the party's nominating conventions in Chicago and Milwaukee that will follow soon.
NYT reported, “It is very unusual to replace the editor-in-chief of a major American newspaper at this time,” and “At a town hall meeting two weeks ago, publisher Lewis announced a list of priorities, including ‘build,’ ‘fix,’ and ‘speak out.’” did.
Publisher Lewis held a ‘meeting’ with employees alongside the editor-in-chief and foreshadowed change by placing ‘freedom of expression’ in third place and ‘construction’ in first place.
On this day, he publicly revealed the deteriorating management, saying, “WP is in serious trouble, with a loss of more than $70 million last year and a 50% decline in viewers over the same period.”
Just before this, WP attempted to split the newsroom into a new service and SNS system under the leadership of its management, and immediately after the guilty verdict of Republican candidate Trump was announced on Friday, it offered a reduced newsroom operator position to a female editor-in-chief and demoted the editor-in-chief. He refused and resigned on Sunday.
WP's CEO immediately appointed his friend, former Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Matt Murray, to run the editorial department's newly created division focused on service and social media journalism.
Robert Winnett, the editor-in-chief of the new editorial department, will be in charge of WP's core reporting areas, and the three-person system with David Shipley, the existing opinion section operator, has been changed from a three-person system to reporting directly to management.
The NYT said, “All three people in the newsroom, Mr. Winnett, Mr. Murray, and Mr. Shipley, will report directly to Mr. Lewis,” and “Mr. Murray, Mr. Winnett, and Mr. Shipley are all white men.”
Winnet, who was appointed as the news operator for WP's reduced newsroom, has 10 years of experience working in news at the small <The Daily Telegraph> and <The Sunday Telegraph>, so it appears that the coverage of the presidential election has weakened.
Editor-in-Chief Boozbee told editors just before his resignation, “The new organizational structure created by CEO Lewis, separating the Washington Post newsroom and opinion section into three small departments, does not suit me,” and added, “Mr. Lewis is making aggressive moves to turn WP around.” is being promoted. The NYT reported that the editors said, “Please reserve judgment for the time being.”
The NYT said, “According to two people familiar with Mr. Boozbee’s thinking, he was dissatisfied with Mr. Lewis’s plan to split WP’s newsroom into several parts, and the two quickly reached an impasse,” adding, “Mr. He said he could run one of the newsroom divisions, but he resigned instead.”
The reorganization is a drastic demotion from the position of Editor-in-Chief Boobiz, who is currently responsible for all news content at The Washington Post, and the addition of a new department focused on service and social media journalism under the supervision of a new editor will result in a significant portion of the paper's editorial output. This appears to be an interference with the independent supervisory rights of the editor-in-chief.
WP, under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Boozbee, added approximately 41 positions in 2021, reorganized the Style section, closed Sunday Magazine, and focused on expanding its reporting and editorial ranks, winning six Pulitzer Prizes and winning three this year.
WP won three Pulitzer Prizes each, along with the New York Times, on May 6 for its wide-ranging journalism in reporting on conflicts around the world, including the plight of migrant child workers in the American Midwest, the deadly consequences of wars in the Middle East, and the brutal crackdown on dissent in Russia under Vladimir Putin. received an award
WP shared a national reporting award with the NYT for "Terror on Repeat," which examined AR-15 rifles commonly used in deadly mass killings by firing hundreds of bullets in rapid succession.
The WP article reported that the rifle "gave the attackers the power to instantly transform an ordinary gathering place for Americans into a gruesome zone of violence."
In April, WP management announced a weakening of the editorial department by hiring Suzi Watford, a former CEO of Dow Jones, the publisher of 'The Journal,' as chief strategy officer.
WP previously appointed Karl Wells as Chief Growth Officer in charge of subscription strategy, partnerships, licensing and data analytics in January.
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