Washington Post reportedly lost 75,000 digital subscribers within 48 hours of owner Jeff Bezos’ announcement on opinion section changes|dionhinchcliffe|CC BY-SA 2.0
A top political columnist at the Washington Post, Ruth Marcus, resigned Monday, accusing the paper’s leadership of censoring her critique of owner Jeff Bezos’ new editorial directive.
Marcus, who has been with the paper since 1984, claimed CEO Will Lewis blocked her column criticizing Bezos’ mandate to align the opinion section strictly with “individual liberties and free markets.”
The paper reportedly lost 75,000 digital subscribers within 48 hours of Bezos’ announcement.
Marcus’s exit follows the recent resignations of Opinions Editor David Shipley, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes and several veteran editors and journalists.