Personnel drama at revered US newspaper has been playing out on its own pages for weeks
The man named as the Washington Post's incoming executive editor, Robert Winnett, will no longer take up the role. Photograph: Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times-owned Washington Post, a role he was due to take up after the US presidential election, Robert Winnett has now withdrawn from the appointment and will be staying put as deputy editor of the Telegraph.
The newspaper has become the story, with that story playing out on the pages of the Washington Post itself. When Lewis, who took up his CEO role just six months ago, said Winnett would “restore an even greater degree of investigative rigour to our organisation”, he probably wasn’t banking on its existing level of investigative rigour making it virtually impossible for his former colleague to join him at the Post.
Lewis, who is also British, set these events in motion when he offered executive editor Sally Buzbee a role leading its “third newsroom”, a proposed “social media and service journalism” division. As this was an effective demotion, she resigned.
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