The fallout from Sally Buzbee’s sudden departure as The Washington Post’s executive editor last weekend has not yet settled, and may not for some time.
The leadership at the Post now consists of CEO Will Lewis and acting executive editor Matt Murray. Murray will serve through the 2024 election, at which point Robert Winnett will take over in the new position of editor and Murray will run a new unit called the third newsroom.
Murray is the former editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal and Winnett is the deputy editor of the Telegraph Media Group, facts that prompt some observers to say Lewis is surrounding himself with loyalists, or at least with former colleagues, although there is nothing so unusual about either.
It is not totally clear why Buzbee stepped down. On the one hand, she was concerned about shrinkage of her role at the Post, reports say. But she also clashed with Lewis over planned coverage of a ruling in a UK phone-hacking case in which Lewis is mentioned but is not a defendant, according to The New York Times.
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