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Greetings from Los Angeles, and welcome back to In the Room. In
tonight’s email, fresh reporting on The Washington Post, where—drum roll—Will Lewis has decided to appoint Matt Murray as executive editor, but is waiting until after the new year to share the news with his staff. Plus, some new details on Mark Thompson’s impending CNN layoffs.
Also mentioned in this email: Joe Kahn, Krissah Thompson,
Marty Kady, Cliff Levy, Carolyn Ryan, Fred Ryan, Bob Iger, Marty Baron, Anne Kornblut, Sally Buzbee, Steven Ginsberg, Karen Pensiero and many more…
But first…
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- 🍸 On today’s edition of The Grill Room, Puck co-founder Jon Kelly joins me to discuss Matt Murray’s aforementioned surprising ascent to the Washington Post executive editor job. Then, Eriq Gardner swings by and weighs in on Bob Iger’s Trump-ABC settlement calculus. Follow The Grill Room on
Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- CNN’s impending cuts: Back in early November, on
the heels of the election, I reported that Mark Thompson was planning to implement another...
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After six excruciating months, Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis is
naming acting executive editor Matt Murray as his new editorial leader—a fitting capstone to a lackluster search effort that never quite came to fruition.
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Next year, presumably on the earlier side of the first quarter, Washington
Post publisher and C.E.O. Will Lewis intends to announce that he has appointed acting executive editor Matt Murray as the newsroom’s permanent chief, according to sources familiar with his plans. The news, which Will has been delaying for unspecified reasons, will bring an anticlimactic end to a long and tortured recruitment effort at a storied paper that—as you know, dear reader—has endured a rather miserable and ignominious few years of
financial...
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