Lefty Journalist Kicking The Tires At WaPo

Post CEO Will Lewis

Lefty Tech reporter Kara Swisher is working toward assembling a group of investors to purchase The Washington Post from billionaire Jeff Bezos.

“The Post can do better… it’s so maddening to see what’s happening. … Why not me? Why not any of us?” Swisher told Axios in a report on Friday.

The Washington Post has reportedly suffered an exodus of high-profile talent, is losing money, has struggled to fill key positions and has seen employee morale plummet in recent years. The paper also irked readers when it announced this year that it would not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. The decision, which angered multiple staffers at the paper and prompted some editorial staff members and staffers to resign, was favored by Bezos.

However, Bezos has given no indication he is willing to sell. 

Musk has become a target of attacks from liberal media outlets and Democratic lawmakers after he endorsed and supported President-elect Trump’s campaign.

While Musk has yet to respond directly to Swisher’s comments, he entered the media landscape in full force by purchasing Twitter in 2022. Musk has since changed the company’s name to X, aiming to create an “everything app.” ”

Swisher and The Washington Post did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

Matt Murray

Also at The Post, Puck columnist Dylan Byers expects C.E.O. Will Lewis to announce that he has appointed acting executive editor Matt Murray as the newsroom’s permanent chief. The news, which Will has been delaying for unspecified reasons, will bring an anticlimactic end to a long and tortured recruitment effort at a storied paper that—as you know, dear reader—has endured a rather miserable and ignominious few years of financial irresponsibility, soul-searching, and chaos.

Murray, after all write Byers, was not Will’s first choice. In June, he had tried, quite inelegantly, to appoint his fellow Brit Rob Winnett to the post while transitioning the lackluster incumbent Sally Buzbee out of the role—only to be all but mutinied by veterans who chafed at the incursion of a Fleet Street sensibility at their august institution. Instead, Will enlisted Murray, his former Wall Street Journal top editor, to man the rudder until he could appoint someone else, at which point Murray was slated to become head of a “third newsroom” focused on new digital projects and innovations.