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In tonight’s email, a look at the thickening trickle of well-known political reporters mulling exits from The Washington Post as Will Lewis continues his fraught reorganization of
the newsroom.
Also mentioned in this email: Matt Murray, Matea Gold, Jeff Bezos, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Tyler Pager, Michael Scherer, Kara Swisher, David Axelrod, Prince Harry, Rupert Murdoch,
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Mark Stephens, Brian Tyler Cohen, and many more…
But first…
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- 🍸 The Grill Room: This week on the podcast, famed Democratic strategist and CNN analyst David Axelrod joined me to talk about the art of podcasting and its influence on our politics and culture, and then John Heilemann and I came together for a special cross-pod media year in review edition of both Impolitic and The Grill Room. Follow along on
Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- Will Lewis testify?: One of the year’s biggest
legal-media dramas is set to kick off in January, when Prince Harry will...
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News, notes, and H.R. updates on a series of significant fin de
siècle leadership changes at Jeff Bezos’s constantly transmogrifying paper.
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In the two months since the presidential election, as it’s become apparent to an
already disillusioned Washington Post staff that Will Lewis’s grand plan for pulling the the paper out of its extended malaise amounts to a convoluted newsroom restructuring led by the existing masthead, several of the company’s most notable journalists have decided that it’s finally time to consider their options. The coup de grâce for these folks—after years of diminished influence, ennui, and recurring bouts of antipathy toward Lewis, himself—appears to have
been the surprise news that their beloved colleague Matea Gold would be decamping to The New York Times upon being...
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