Washington Post faces editorial turmoil and high-profile departures
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Staff at the Washington Post are bracing for a wave of layoffs that are expected to be announced |
| 0:05.2 | this week. It's the latest hit for the Post coming just days after a longtime editorial cartoonist, |
| 0:12.0 | Ann Tilness, resigned in protest. Her editor rejected her latest cartoon, which depicted |
| 0:17.1 | post owner Jeff Bezos and other media leaders on bended knee before President |
| 0:22.3 | elect Trump. The Post said the cartoon was rejected because it had been repetitive of a recent |
| 0:28.1 | column and another that was set to be published. Her editor in a statement said in part, |
| 0:33.1 | not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force. To many observers, though, it's the |
| 0:39.8 | latest in a series of events that are raising questions about Bezos and the leadership of the |
| 0:44.4 | Post, including a series of high-profile staff departures and a wave of reader backlash. |
| 0:50.2 | For more on that, we're joined now by Kara Swisher, multi-platform journalist, entrepreneur, and author of Burn Book, A Tech Love Story. |
| 0:58.3 | Thanks so much for being with us. |
| 0:59.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:01.2 | And we should mention that you are putting together an investor group to buy the Washington Post. |
| 1:06.4 | Jeff Bezos has... |
| 1:07.3 | I'm thinking about it. |
| 1:08.0 | Thinking about it. |
| 1:08.5 | Yes, I've been talking. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm talking to a lot of people because I'm just disturbed by. Thinking about it. Yes, I've been talking. I'm talking to a lot of people |
| 1:10.9 | because I'm just disturbed by what's happening there. I'm sure other people are too. The question is |
| 1:16.0 | if he wants to sell it. He hasn't indicated any interest whatsoever, but I wanted to raise the idea |
| 1:21.1 | because I think it needs new leadership and new management. And right, I was going to say he's given no indication that he intends to sell. No. |
| 1:28.3 | But what's the vision? |
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