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Jeff Bezos unveiled sweeping changes to The Washington Post’s opinion page.Coverage will now center around two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.The search for a new opinions editor has begun after David Shipley stepped away, Bezos said.
Jeff Bezos unveiled sweeping changes to The Washington Post’s opinion page in a note to staff that he also shared on X.
“We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos wrote. “We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
Bezos, who owns the Post, said there’s no longer a need for “a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views” because of the internet.
“I am of America and for America, and proud to be so,” he wrote. “And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.”
As part of the overhaul, Bezos said that opinion editor David Shipley is stepping away from the paper, and that the search is on for a replacement.
In October, The Washington Post made waves when it opted not to endorse a candidate in the presidential election — a decision that the Post reported came from Bezos himself.
Following a year of internal turmoil, hundreds of Post staffers sent Bezos a letter in January asking him to intervene after integrity and transparency issues — far beyond the endorsement controversy, the letter said — had precipitated staff departures.
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