By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-31 23:39:09 | Updated at 2025-01-03 21:05:03
2 days ago
Two more top reporters flee Washington Post for further-left pasture
NY Post ^ | 12/31/24 | Taylor Herzlich
Posted on 12/31/2024 3:34:37 PM PST by Libloather
Two top Washington Post reporters have defected from the Jeff Bezos-owned paper as it continues to reel following the billionaire’s decision to kill an endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Political correspondents Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer were poached by The Atlantic — owned by Laurene Powell Jobs — and will join the left-leaning magazine ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Their departures comes on the heels of a report Monday by Puck News that White House correspondent Tyler Pager and investigative reporter Josh Dawsey have been “mulling a transfer or have already decided to exit.”
The Beltway broadsheet has suffered an exodus of top talent — and a reported loss of more than 200,000 subscribers — since Bezos blocked the editorial board from endorsing the Democratic candidate just weeks before the election.
Three Opinions section members — David Hoffman, Molly Roberts and Robert Kagan — quit following the decision not to endorse any candidate for the first time in decades.
Bezos, the second-richest person in the world with a net worth valued by Bloomberg Billionaires Index at $241 billion, was a frequent target of Trump during his first term in office — mainly due to the Washington Post’s coverage of his administration.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: leftists; post; reporters; washington
Such terrible news. Happy New Year!
1 posted on 12/31/2024 3:34:37 PM PST by Libloather
To: Libloather
Wait... no... it was just a little dust in my eye.
The dinosaur media extinction continues apace.
2 posted on 12/31/2024 3:37:01 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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