Karen Attiah reflects on her controversial firing from The Washington Post and what comes next
It was not all that long ago that Karen Attiah was making a worldwide impact by writing authoritative opinion pieces for The Washington Post, starting up the paper’s global opinions section, winning journalism awards, dining alongside powerful figures such as Post owner Jeff Bezos and having an influential voice not just in the U.S., but across the globe.
Today? She’s left stunned, angry, confused and sad after having been suddenly fired by the Post in September following social media posts in the days after the shooting death of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.
She has since filed a grievance against the paper and started her own Substack — The Golden Hour — as she tries to figure out what happened and where she goes from here.
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