Sally Buzbee, Washington Post Editor, to Leave Role
On Sunday, Mr. Lewis unveiled more of his plan to save The Post, including the new division of the newsroom focused on service, which will target nontraditional news consumers. The core news division will soon include premium subscription products, similar to Politico Pro.
Mr. Murray, 58, led The Journal for four years, a job he was appointed to by Mr. Lewis, who was then the chief executive of Dow Jones and the publisher of The Journal. Mr. Murray was replaced in 2023 by the British editor Emma Tucker. He has since served as a consultant to News Corp, which owns The Journal, and has worked as a contributing editor to News Items, an email newsletter.
When Mr. Winnett takes over the core newsroom after the election, he will oversee coverage areas such as politics, investigations and business. For the past decade, Mr. Winnett has run news operations at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
A habitué of Fleet Street, Mr. Winnett is relatively unknown in the top echelons of the U.S. news industry. He was one of Mr. Lewis’s most prominent hires at The Daily Telegraph, having been nominated multiple times for Scoop of the Year.
Ms. Buzbee joined The Post in June 2021 after serving as executive editor of The Associated Press, where she spent her whole career. She took over The Post from Marty Baron, a legendary newspaper editor who had run The Post for eight years and oversaw its transition to ownership by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, who bought the paper for $250 million in 2013.
Fred Ryan, the former chief executive of the company, stepped down last June, and was replaced in the interim by Patty Stonesifer, an Amazon board member. Ms. Stonesifer, a confidant of Mr. Bezos, assessed the company and soon determined that it needed to cut about 240 jobs in order to become economically sustainable. Ms. Stonesifer led the search for her successor, and recruited Mr. Lewis to The Post last year.
