Washington Post CEO Will Lewis running damage control after diversity hierarchy chaos: report
NY Post
New Washington Post CEO Will Lewis is already running damage control after he ignited a firestorm at the legacy newspaper this week.
“I know trust has been lost because of scars from the past and the back-and-forth from this week,” Lewis wrote Friday morning in a company-wide memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
“Let’s leave those behind and start presuming the best of intent.”
The British-born media exec appealed to his nearly 4,000 employees to forgive the onslaught of negative attention that fell on the 144-year paper this week after he announced his disastrous restructuring plans hours after the Washington Post’s first female executive editor, Sally Buzbee, suddenly stepped down.
Lewis replaced the trailblazer with a white man and appointed another to a second, equal role in his new hierarchy.
“In some quieter moments this week, I have been reflecting on leadership styles, trust and humility,” he wrote in his memo.
