News commentary
Goodbye, Washington Post
On Jan. 5, 2007, a call with Fred Hiatt changed my life. I was dying a slow death at a corporate public relations firm during my second departure from journalism.
Fred was the editorial page editor of The Washington Post and he was on the hunt for an editorial writer. We’d been in touch a few years before, but nothing came of it. This time was different. Hiatt hired me. My first day was Feb. 15, 2007.
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State of Play
The Washington Post is shedding both staff and subscribers — but making friends in the White House — as its owner, Jeff Bezos, remakes its opinion pages and lops off major areas of coverage.