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Jeff Bezos and the decline of the Washington Post
When the billionaire Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, he was billed as its ‘saviour’, and for a while, it seemed like he was. But across his tenure, the masthead that broke the Watergate scandal has been in financial and reputational decline. In The New York Review of Books, ex-managing editor of The Post Robert G. Kaiser says that a directive from Bezos to not endorse Kamala Harris before the 2024 election was one of the factors that signalled a serious change at the masthead, and which dealt it "a great blow".
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