A column writer worked in the Washington Post resigned for four decades on Monday after she said that the newspaper administration decided not to manage her suspension of the new editorial policy Jeff Bezos.
“It breaks my heart to conclude that I must leave,” Ruth Marcus, who has a job In the newspaper since 1984, he wrote in a resignation letter.
Its exit is the latest repercussion by the billionaire owner’s directive that the post narrows the topics covered by its opinion section to personal freedoms and the free market. The newspaper’s editor, David Shipley, had already resigned because of the transformation.
The newspaper with floors was free, financially and vital during the past year. “Marcus, who worked in the sections of news and opinion during her career, is” the basis in the Washington Post, embodies the history of the place as well as the talent and achievements of journalists. “
Marcus, who was final for Politzer Award for Comment In 2007, she said that the Post Publisher, Will Lewis, and refused to operate its column, which she described as “opposed with respect” from the Bizos Decree. She said this is the first time for nearly 20 years of writing the columns that killed one.
She wrote that the decision “confirms that the traditional freedom of the book of columns to choose the topics they want to address and say what they believe was eaten seriously.” Its resignation letter was first reported by the New York Times.
Another spokesman said on Monday.
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While bezos and Lowis have the right to make such decisions – understanding the presidents – “this was not tradition,” said Farhi. He likened how the Ministry of Justice worked while technically under control of the White House, working independently independently. He said that the editorial book and the book of columns are driven to present their opinions, and they usually decide what they write.
He said that the danger is that the publisher’s decision not to allow the column to move forward can make readers ask whether the book’s views are really their own. Worse, it can spoil the news section, which through most accounts cover the power of the new administration.
Shortly after announcing the editorial page decision nearly two weeks ago, the story of another publication on this issue was canceled by the Erik Wemple media, according to The Gene Pool, a blog written by former writer Jane Winjutten. Wemple refused to comment on Monday.
In January, the editorial cartoonist Ann Telenaz to resign After her work depicting Bezos and other billionaires that were rejected in front of a statue of President Donald Trump, the decision to explain Sibli at the time is that he was repeated in cutting the other opinion.
Under the executive editor Matt Murray, the post also said that he will refrain from making journalists write about the issues involved in the newspaper, a decision Wimbel in chat with readers in January, “I could not oppose (more) more than that.”
On Monday, the Post opinion department included an opening case that opposes firearms manufacturing companies, a case before the United States Supreme Court. Public clerk Max Pot wrote about Trump and Russia, Perry Bacon Junior about Trump’s democratic resistance in the United States, Philip is on whether Trump will pay a political price for non -popular policies and Jim Giragti on violence in Syria.
This position, which made money during the Trump’s first administration, lost money in recent years, and began the internal conflict to a large extent last June, when Sally Bouzbi resigned as an executive editor instead of accepting the reorganization of the newsroom. Many prominent journalists – among them Ashley Parker, Josh Dossi, Philip Rocker, Matta Gold, Jackie Omani, Michael Shearer and Will Sommer – left for other jobs.
Bezos’s decision last fall that this position will not support the presidential candidate – after editing staff prepared to support Democrat Kamala Harris – to the exit from the participants the newspaper fights to recover from it.
Marti Baron, the executive editor in the Post when Pesus bought the paper in 2013 last week in the Atlantic Ocean that Bezos dealt with his ownership for more than a decade. But his courage failed when he needed it more than others. “
Marcus’s resignation on Monday over the plan to reorganize the newsroom presented by Murray, including the workflow for digital products and printing in the mail.
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