Fred Ryan’s Re-Election

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Hey there, I’m Dylan Byers.

Welcome back to In The Room, my biweekly private email on the inner workings of the American media industry. This evening, we go back inside The Washington Post, where C.E.O. Fred Ryan and executive editor Sally Buzzbee seem to be growing ever more frustrated and distrustful with one another, no one seems to be articulating a coherent strategy for the future, and everyone wants to know if Jeff Bezos is even paying attention.

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Fred Ryan’s Re-Election

Questions about Ryan’s leadership have become widespread at the Post, where the gulf between the paper and the Times widens, and the finger-pointing has taken hold.

DYLAN BYERS

Every St. Patrick’s Day, Fred Ryan, the publisher and C.E.O. of The Washington Post, hosts a party at the George Town Club on Wisconsin Avenue for various members of the D.C. political-media establishment. Attired in green or Irish plaid, the svelte, gray-haired media executive holds court among some old friends from the Reagan White House; some senior Post executives and journalists; and various fixtures of what one attendee described as “Old Washington.”

It may sound pretentious and stuffy, but that’s also sort of the point—the event, after all, is a reminder of the station that Ryan holds in the Beltway, where he is the ultimate smooth insider...

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