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The Daily Beast reports: The Washington Post is hiring—but apparently only if you’re the kind of journalist that will steer the paper further toward the right. Publisher Will Lewis recently met with Eliana Johnson, the editor-in-chief of the right-wing outlet The Washington Free Beacon, to discuss how she could help recruit more right-leaning reporters, according to Status. The move is …

“I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. “There was a time when a …

The Hill reports: The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause. The group said it signed a $115,000 agreement with The Post to run the ad that would have covered the front and back …

Axios reports: Hundreds of staffers at The Washington Post sent a letter to the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, on Wednesday urging him to meet with newsroom leaders amid a confidence crisis with the leadership. It’s the most drastic step staffers have taken to address the myriad challenges facing The Post over the past year. “We are deeply alarmed by recent …

CNN reports: Amazon is planning to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is expected to visit with Trump in person in the coming days, as he and other tech founders seek closer relationships with the incoming president. Bezos and Trump spoke over the summer after the first assassination attempt. Bezos publicly praised Trump at …

Mediaite reports: Billionaire Jeff Bezos offered a “Big congratulations” to former President Donald Trump on his electoral win in a tweet he posted Wednesday morning. Bezos, who has been one of the top wealthiest people in the world for the entire twenty-first century so far, founded Amazon and also owns aerospace company Blue Origin and The Washington Post. His ownership …

Fox News reports: Longtime Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt quit the newspaper on Friday, he told Fox News Digital. Hewitt, a conservative who hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, had been a contributing columnist for the newspaper since 2017 and has written hundreds of pieces. A clip of Hewitt went viral earlier on Friday when he walked off the Washington …

Jeff Bezos writes for the Washington Post: In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not …

The Washington Post reports: The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president. More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday …

The Daily Beast reports: The Washington Post’s outgoing editor-at-large and longtime columnist has made explosive claims that its owner Jeff Bezos struck a deal with Donald Trump in order to kill the newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s …

The Washington Post reports: The Washington Post’s editorial board announced Friday that it will not make an endorsement in this year’s presidential contest, for the first time in 36 years, or in future presidential races. The decision, 11 days before an election that most polls show as too close to call, marks the second time this week that a major …

CNN reports: For the first time in decades, The Washington Post will not endorse a candidate in this year’s presidential election, the newspaper’s publisher announced Friday. “The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election,” Will Lewis said in a published statement. “We are returning to our …

Law & Crime reports: Trump Media & Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes, the Republican former U.S. representative for California, failed in his yearslong efforts to sue the Washington Post for defamation over a 2020 article that said he backed the Donald Trump-amplified notion that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower, a now unsealed opinion shows. The opinion from U.S. District …

Politico reports: A Florida law blocking Gov. Ron DeSantis’ publicly funded travel records from the public is unconstitutional and the state should be required to turn them over, asserts a legal challenge filed by The Washington Post. The Post’s lawsuit marks the first effort to challenge the law, which the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature passed just weeks before DeSantis officially announced …

The Deep Dive reports: Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) filed a lawsuit in a Florida civil court against The Washington Post, allegedly claiming the media outfit defamed the company in one of its articles. The firm is seeking $3.78 billion in damages. The news firm allegedly “published an egregious hit piece that falsely accused TMTG of securities fraud and …

Axios reports: Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and media mogul, is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post, a source familiar with his thinking told Axios. Bloomberg wants to expand his media empire and sees Dow Jones as his ideal fit, but he would buy the Post if Jeff Bezos were interested …

From the Washington Post editorial board: Voting is a foundational right of citizenship. That’s why we oppose a bill, poised to pass the D.C. Council this week, that would allow an estimated 50,000 noncitizen residents to cast ballots in local elections. This newspaper has opposed efforts over the past decade to rewrite D.C.’s election code so green-card holders could vote. …

The Washington Post reports: The Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and its aftermath. The prize, considered American journalism’s highest honor, recognizes the work of more than 100 journalists across the Post’s newsroom, many of whom contributed reporting from the Capitol …

The Washington Post reports: The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, according to government letters and officials. In three separate letters dated May 3 and addressed to Post reporters Ellen …

The Washington Post reports: President Biden’s White House has renewed subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post after former President Trump canceled them out of anger over how he was portrayed. A White House source said physical copies of both papers arrived on Thursday morning, Biden’s first full day as president. Trump canceled the White House subscriptions …