NEW YORK — The Washington Post’s brand-new editor Robert Winnett neverever made it to his task, withdrawing Friday and choosing to stay in England in another turmoil at a news outlet where a reorganization strategy hasactually gone disastrously wrong.
He’d been the subject of anumberof released reports — consistingof one in the newsroom that he lookedfor to lead — that questioned whether he followed an ethical compass foreign to American reporters. The Post’s CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, revealed Winnett’s choice in a note to personnel, and stated a recruitment company would be instantly employed to search for a replacement.
The economically havingahardtime Post had revealed Winnett would take over as editor of the core newsroom functions after November’s governmental election, while it was likewise setting up a “third newsroom” dedicated to finding brand-new methods for its journalism to make cash.
Three weeks ago, then-executive editor Sally Buzbee stated that she would stop rather than take a demotion to head this revenue-enhancement effort. Besides Winnett’s employing, previous Wall Street Journal editor Matt Murray was brought on as her interim replacement and future leader of the “third newsroom.”
Since then, numerous released reports had raised concerns about the journalistic principles of Lewis and Winnett stemming from their work in England. For example, both males worked together in a series of scoops about lavish costs by British politicalleaders sustained by info that they paid a information details business for — a practice frowned upon by American reporters.
The New York Times composed that both Winnett and Lewis were included