By JACK SHAFER | The Washington Times
Like the owner’s manual that sends you searching YouTube for additional and useable instructions, Washington Post Publisher and CEO Sir William Lewis’ 900-word memo to his staff, emailed Sunday night, perplexes more than it enlightens.
The headline news, of course, is simple enough: Lewis showed the door to Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, installed just three years ago by previous publisher Fred Ryan, who left last year after a bit of turbulence of his own. In her place, Lewis recruited two long-time former colleagues to actually produce the paper, Matt Murray and by year’s end, Robert Winnett.
Beyond that, the Lewis memo fails to illuminate the paper’s new path. Like all reorg charts, the Lewis memo makes about as much intuitive sense as a football play diagrammed on a whiteboard, all arrows and O’s and X’s, and it over-indulges in the standard corporate-speak about “urgency” and the need for “transparency” every new regime peddles. Lewis didn’t even answer questions from his own reporters for its Monday news story about the shake-up.
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