Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit

Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/Getty Images North America The Washington Post's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, announced a sweeping new libertarian vision for the paper's opinion sections on Wednesday, just four months after his decision to kill a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris triggered hundreds of thousands of subscribers to cancel. Post Opinions Editor David Shipley, whom Bezos recruited from Bloomberg Opinions in 2022, chose to resign rather than stay to oversee the paper's revamped sections. "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets," Bezos wrote in a memo to staffers announcing the changes. "We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others." Sponsor Message Newspaper op-ed sections have incorporated opposing views for years. The term "op-ed" is li ... Read full article.