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“It is with regret that I share with you that Robert Winnett has withdrawn from the position of Editor at The Washington Post . Rob has my greatest respect and is an incredibly talented editor and journalist,” the memo read.
Lewis, who became publisher and CEO of the Post in January following his appointment by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, added that Winnett will continue to serve as deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph in London. Washington Post publisher Will Lewis told staff that Robert Winnett will no longer be the paper's top editor.Lewis had tapped Winnett to take over the top editorial position during a shakeup earlier this month that saw the Post’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee,Winnett had worked with Lewis at two British papers and served as a mentor to him, according toquestioned Winnett’s involvement
in a phone hacking scandal and articles where a source was paid for information, which is a practice that is more commonplace in England but shunned in the U.S. He was also accused of destroying evidence in a civil case related to the phone hacking matter, which he has denied.NPR media correspondent David Folkenflikearlier this month of offering an exclusive on his plans for the paper in exchange for him killing a story that detailed his own involvement in the British hacking scandal.
Lewis joined Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in 2010 and has been accused of helping delete evidence while part of a committee that oversaw the company’s response to the scandal. Lewis has denied wrongdoing..Lewis later slammed Folkenflik’s reporting in an email to a Post reporter while claiming that it was related to an “off-the-record conversation” they had before he joined the Post. Folkenflik denied that their conversation was entirely off the record.
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