New CEO Will Lewis’ Fleet Street sensibilities are colliding with the Post’s self-regard in troubling and explosive ways.
“The newsroom is almost uniformly horrified,” one Post reporter said of allegations Will Lewis attempted to meddle in coverage. | Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty ImagesGraham was the most revered publisher in the Washington Post’s history, who steered the newspaper through Watergate and the Pentagon Papers.
A series of emerging revelations, stemming from his announcement Sunday that executive editor Sally Buzbee would be leaving, to replaced by two close Lewis associates, have left the Post newsroom “uniformly horrified,” in one reporter’s words. Post reporters have responded to the allegations that Lewis breached the wall between the business and editorial sides of the paper with more aggressive reporting on him. “The only way to fix what he broke is to double down on transparency about the whole thing,” one Post reporter told Playbook.from the New York Times that Lewis told Buzbee that a proposed Post story tying Lewis to accusations of covering up evidence in the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal in the U.K.
Said Lewis, “I know how this works, I know the right thing to do, and what not to do. I know where the lines are, and I respect them.” As a side note, Folkenflik noted in his story that the interview he sought about the Post’s restructuring went to Puck’s Dylan Byers. Asked if Lewis made any kind of offer similar to what Folkenflik described, Byers said, “Of course not. And I have never agreed to anything like that, and I never would.”
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