Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee was the subject of a Vanity Fair profile piece that was filled with staffers knocking their boss anonymously.
'MediaBuzz' host Howard Kurtz reacts to the firing of Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez following days of Twitter attacks on the paper and colleagues.anonymously piled on their boss, Sally Buzbee, who just surpassed one year as the paper's executive editor.
One Post reporter swiped Buzbee's more hands-off leadership style following her very-involved predecessor, Marty Baron, telling Klein,"It’s a place that is perhaps unusually attached to taking direction from the very top. … So to not have that, I think, is very unsettling to a lot of people." Multiple staffers"grumbled" over the extended timeline it took for Buzbee to address the paper's social media policies, particularly following the Twitter turmoil among colleagues spearheaded by fired reporter Felicia Sonmez, one staffer telling Klein,"The fact is the leader of the newsroom let this fester for her first year." Buzbee herself acknowledged that public infighting was a"painful episode" for the Post.
Klein wrote that the incident"opened the floodgates for members of Style who’d evidently felt neglected by Buzbee during her first year and were now even more skeptical about her leadership." Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee was swiped by anonymous staffers in a profile published in Vanity Fair.
Senior managing editor Cameron Barr touted Buzbee's mission for a more"inclusive, collaborative environment" in the newsroom while chief product officer and managing editor Kat Downs Mulder praised Buzbee's willingness to seek input and suggested her"different" approach is a welcoming change, noting that both she and her boss are moms.
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