Will Lewis has dragged WaPo into his alleged U.K. hacking scandal—and staffers who spoke with The Daily Beast are pissed.
staffers’ inboxes on Thursday from CEO Will Lewis, encouraging them to sign up for a chance to grill him—not on allegations he tried to block coverage of his foreign cover-up scandal, but on his new plans for a divvied-up newsroom.
staffer described the newsroom as “pretty shocked and outraged” and in “disbelief” over Lewis’ reported attempts at editorial meddling. But his reported obstruction in editorial matters flies in the face of the role of a publisher, whose job is traditionally to oversee the company’s business dealings while the executive editor handles the actual journalism.
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