Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist Eugene Robinson quit The Washington Post on Thursday over billionaire owner Jeff Bezos’ plan to have the section focus on “free markets and personal liberties”—traditionally conservative values that signal the paper’s rightward shift. Robinson, 71, told staffers in a memo that Bezos’ reminagining of the opinion page has “spurred me to…
[Kale Carey] A POLITICAL COLUMNIST AND ASSOCIATE EDITOR WHO WORKED AT THE WASHINGTON POST FOR FOUR DECADES RESIGNED FOLLOWING THE PAPER’S DECISION TO REPORTEDLY NOT RUN HER OPINION ARTICLE … CRITICAL OF OWNER JEFF BEZO’S LATEST CHANGES TO THE NEWS OUTLET. IN RUTH MARCUS’S RESIGNATION LETTER OBTAINED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES … SHE SAID…
Warren Buffett rarely gives interviews. But also rare is his friendship with the late, trailblazing publisher of the Washington Post, Katharine Graham. “If there’s any story that should be told, it should be her story,” he said. “If I was a young girl, I’d want to hear that story. It would change my self-image. “She…
Billionaire Jeff Bezos has announced a major shift in The Washington Post’s editorial stance, declaring that the publication’s opinion pages will focus exclusively on “personal liberties” and “free markets.” The move has already led to the resignation of opinion editor David Shipley. The change has divided opinions, with Tesla CEO Elon Musk among those publicly…
Politics AT WHAT COST? The billionaire’s conservative revamp of the newspaper’s opinion section has angered its subscribers. Nandika Chatterjee Breaking News Intern Published Feb. 28 2025 3:08PM EST David Ryder/Getty Images Nandika Chatterjee Breaking News Intern nandika.chatterjee@thedailybeast.com Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here. Source link
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos makes changes to opinion page guidelines – CBS News Watch CBS News Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is implementing major changes to the outlet’s opinion page, adjusting what columnists can and cannot write about. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson breaks down any legal red flags and whether it could…
Washington: The Washington Post will no longer run views opposed to “personal liberties and free markets” on its opinion pages, owner Jeff Bezos announced Wednesday, the billionaire’s latest intervention in the major US paper’s editorial operations. The move, a major break from the norm at the Post and at most credible news media organizations worldwide,…
Media The ad, which showed a laughing Musk superimposed over the White House and urged lawmakers to “Fire Elon Musk,” was scheduled to be in Tuesday’s issue. Published Feb. 17 2025 6:52AM EST Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here. Source link
Mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos owns so much stuff that his investments are effectively going to war with one another. Earlier this week, Bezos’s e-commerce company (Amazon) launched a lawsuit against a state government to retaliate against The Washington Post, which Bezos also owns. The lawsuit, filed by Amazon against Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries, asks…
On Wednesday, Amazon filed a lawsuit to block The Washington Post‘s request to acquire records relating to the tech company’s in-development satellite initiative. According to its website, the initiative, Project Kuiper, is meant to “increase global broadband access through a constellation of more than 3,000 satellites in low Earth orbit” in order to bring “fast,…