The Post’s new interim CEO is a former Microsoft executive who has been on Amazon’s board of directors for nearly three decades. But what Patty Stonesifer emphasized most when meeting staff was that her job with the news organization is temporary.
will step down from the helm after nine years. Ryan will depart in August, but Stonesifer will begin work immediately.Addressing The Post’s newsroom staff with Ryan soon after the announcements, Stonesifer said Bezos asked her to oversee a smooth transition for the company.
In an interview earlier in the day, noting that she had been on the job for “41/2 minutes,” Stonesifer spoke of Bezos’s commitment and interest in The Post. “For the past 10 years, he has talked about it all the time,” she said. “He is very dedicated to the mission and the quality.” Stonesifer insisted she will only be at The Post on an interim basis, which “could be as short as six months, or it could be longer,” as her goal is to make sure “the team and the culture are in place for the decade ahead.”Stonesifer’s life has intersected with journalism in different ways. In 1974, after she graduated high school, she attended Butler University as a journalism major, but then dropped out three years later to marry her first husband.
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