Jeff Bezos’ decision to end the Post’s decades-long practice exploded into public view last week, sparking fury among reporters, editors, readers and the Watergate journalists.
A tropical storm was heading toward Florida’s Gulf Coast in late September when senior news and opinion leaders ofDuring their visit – which included a working lunch at Bezos’ sprawling home on an exclusive island in Biscayne Bay and dinner at a nearby restaurant – David Shipley, theBy the end of the meeting, according to four people familiar with it who spoke on condition of anonymity to relay private conversations, it appeared to Shipley and Lewis that Bezos had reservations about the,...
Instead, on Friday, Shipley joined the editorial board via video for a regular meeting at 11am in an eighth-floor conference room at theThe board members were aghast. They grilled him – why wouldn’t the paper endorse? There was little support for the idea among the editorial board, which had not been consulted on the decision, one of the people said.was no longer going to tell people how to vote, a posture that would reflect the paper’s independent bona fides, the two people said.
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