Janine Herbst

Just days after The Washington Post announced it would lay off more than 300 journalists, that's around 30 percent of its staff, embattled publisher and CEO Will Lewis says he's leaving his job after two years.

It's a tenure marked by controversy and crisis.

Lewis, a Brit, came under withering criticism from his staff for a lack of transparency, and he played no visible role in announcing the layoffs, and he was then photographed the next evening in Northern California walking the red carpet at a pre-Super Bowl event.

That reduction in staff gutted the paper's sports, local news and international coverage.

Lewis has experimented with several ways to transform the paper, including using AI for comments, podcasts and news aggregation.

He warned staff two years ago the paper was losing a lot of money.

The Post's CFO said,

Jeff D'Onofrio will take over as acting publisher and CEO.

The U.S.

Education Department is telling colleges to stop using student voting data in research.

The department says it's investigating researchers at Tufts University and the National Student Clearinghouse for allegedly sharing college students' data with third parties to influence elections.

For Member Station WGBH, Kirk Carapazza has more.

Kirker Peraza from GBH reporting.

This is NPR.

It's been a tough first day for U.S.

skiers in the Italian Alps as competition at the Winter Olympics gets underway.

In men's downhill racing and a women's cross-country ski race, U.S.

athletes finished well out of medal range.

Empire's Brian Mann has more from Milan.

And at 41, Vaughn says she's happy to race no matter the outcome.