LAST NIGHT, WILL LEWIS, The embattled CEO and publisher of the Washington Post stepped down just three days after the paper laid off a third of its staff and eliminated or gutted several areas of coverage. Will Lewis will be replaced by the current CFO, Jeff D HE WAS SPOTTED THE NEXT DAY, BY THE WAY, AFTER AN NFL RED CARPET EVENT IN SAN FRANCISCO. Lewis's farewell letter was just four sentences long, but it was noteworthy.In it, he thanked the paper's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, but made absolutely no me ...

in American urnalism, and my former employer a place I called home for six years, has been gutted. This week the Washington Post owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos laid off roughly one-third of its staff in a sweeping round of cuts. nearly every department was affected.The sports desk, book section and several foreign bureaus were eliminated. All reporters stationed in the Middle East lost their jobs as well as key correspondents covering and living in war zones also let go the reporter who covered Amazon and ...

Good morning. Good to have you with us. I'm Joe Frier.Savannah is on assignment. We begin this hour with the ongoing search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of our beloved colleague Savannah. The 84year-old has now been missing for 5 days, and investigators are continuing to look for clues.Yesterday, sheriff's deputies, FBI agents, and K-9 units searched Nancy Guthri's home again, and for the first time, they set up crime scene tape on the property. Savannah Guthrie and her siblings shared a video statement on ...

About 300 employees at the Washington Post are without a job tonight after sweeping layoffs rattled the newsroom at one of the country's most esteemed journalism outlets. The dramatic cuts are reportedly part of an effort to restore profitability for the 150year-old paper. But one former reporter writes, she now works for the Atlantic but formerly at the Post.She describes it like this. Quote, "We're witnessing a murder." And then took aim at the post owner Jeff Bezos. Bezos is the fourth richest person in ...