The Washington Post loses its biggest star yet: sports columnist Sally Jenkins
Every day, it seems, another top-notch journalist leaves The Washington Post.
But on Wednesday, with all due respect to the number of extremely talented people who have already left, the Post suffered its biggest loss yet. Sally Jenkins, who just might be the best sports columnist in the country, announced she has accepted a buyout.
And she did it with a memo written so well that it could win an award, showing again just how massively talented she is. Dan Steinberg, a former Post sportswriter who is now an editor at The Athletic, tweeted, “Sally Jenkins’s goodbye note is, like, better than anything I have ever written.”
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