The Washington Post is in in trouble. According to a new report out from Vanity Fair, the weekend kerfuffle that saw the departure of Sally Buzbee as executive editor was only compounded on Monday when staff gathered for a meeting only to find that she’d been replaced by two white men. Buzbee had been leading the paper since 2021.
The Post’s CEO and publisher Will Lewis told staff that it was time to take “decisive, urgent, action to set us on a different path.” One reporter asked Lewis whether “any women or people or color were interviewed and seriously considered for either of these positions.” That question, Vanity Fair writes, elicited applause. Buzbee was the first woman executive editor at the Post.
Others questioned why the new interim executive editor Matt Murray was brought on board when that created a scenario where, as one reporter put it, “we now have four white men running three newsrooms.”…
