Washington Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is looking to bring on more conservative writers after the paper chose not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris. Many have been critical of the outlet for being too far to the left in its coverage.
Bezos said he is looking to expand the paper's reach among those who are more conservative, according to the New York Times. Will Lewis has been appointed to be the chief executive at the paper and informed him that there needs to be more conservative writers at the paper on the opinion section.
The Time reported that ahead of the declination to endorse Harris, Bezos was encouraged by Lewis and other opinion editors to not end the outlet's tradition of giving endorsements. After it became public that the paper would not endorse, multiple employees at the company resigned from their positions.
Editor-at-large at the Post Robert Kagan resigned from his position following the announcement. Michelle Norris, a columnist at the outlet also resigned, announcing the decision via a social media post on Sunday. She said it the paper's choice to not to make an endorsement was “a terrible mistake & an insult to the paper’s own longstanding standard of regularly endorsing candidates since 1976.”
The LA Times also declined to endorse Harris, leading to a number of resignations from that outlet as well.
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