David Folkenflik
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The Post had been running deep in the red, and Lewis's promised innovations failed to stem the losses.
When owner Jeff Bezos killed a planned editorial endorsement of Kamala Harris and made the editorial pages friendlier to President Trump, hundreds of thousands of digital subscribers canceled.
On Wednesday, the Post announced 300 journalists would be laid off.
Lewis was nowhere to be seen, but he was spotted the next night at an event in California ahead of the Super Bowl.
On Saturday, Bezos announced Lewis's replacement, the paper's chief financial officer.
In a statement, Bezos promised an exciting and thriving next chapter for the Post.
Executive editor Matt Murray addressed the entire newsroom by Zoom Wednesday morning.
Murray called the cuts a strategic reset, as the paper's readers preferred coverage of national politics and national security.
Bezos is the founder of Amazon and one of the world's richest people.
He bought the paper in 2013 and invested in it deeply, saying it needed to innovate to survive.
Now he demanded deep cuts to stem years of red ink.
Former executive editors Marty Baron and Marcus Browkley questioned the strategy...
Notably, the paper's chief executive and publisher, Will Lewis, did not address the newsroom and has not so far spelled out the roadmap for the path ahead.
The precise charges have not yet been revealed, but U.S.
Attorney General Pam Bondi linked the arrest to Don Lemon and Georgia Fort's presence at the church protest.
Demonstrators focused on the church because a pastor there is a senior local ICE official.
Lemon interviewed the pastor and congregants as well as protesters.
Lemon's attorney says his client was simply there as a reporter to document the events.