During his tenure as executive editor at The Washington Post, Martin Baron ran into a persistent problem.Jeff Bezos had purchased The Post for $250 million in 2013, less than a […]
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Back to news homeWashington Post’s Business Struggles as Frustrations Mount
In the years after Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, business boomed. Droves of readers bought digital subscriptions, and the newsroom roughly doubled in size, adding hundreds more […]
What Zuckerberg’s money can’t buy
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we looked at Solana’s smartphone and the post-Apple tech industry. This week, we’re looking at a web3 without Big Tech. To get this […]
Infighting Overshadows Big Plans at The Washington Post
When Sally Buzbee joined The Washington Post a year ago this month, she took over a newsroom that had nearly doubled to more than 1,000 journalists under the ownership of […]
Washington Post Picks Sally Buzbee as Top Editor
The Post’s search for an executive editor, led by Mr. Ryan, started at the end of January, when Mr. Baron gave a month’s notice, saying, “At age 66, I feel […]
Why Buy a Yacht When You Can Buy a Newspaper?
Billionaires have had a pretty good pandemic. There are more of them than there were a year ago, even as the crisis has exacerbated inequality. But scrutiny has followed these […]
Washington Post, Reuters and Los Angeles Times Search for New Top Editors
Vox, the flagship site of Vox Media, has two high-level openings: editor in chief and senior vice president. Both jobs are held by Lauren Williams, one of relatively few Black […]
Washington Post Editor Marty Baron to Retire
Martin Baron, the executive editor of The Washington Post who also led The Miami Herald and The Boston Globe in a storied journalism career, will retire at the end of […]
It’s the End of an Era for the Media, No Matter Who Wins the Election
There’s a media phenomenon the old-time blogger Mickey Kaus calls “overism”: articles in the week before the election whose premise is that even before the votes are counted, we know […]