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Some of the Washington Post’s most prized reporters — Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager — have announced their departures from the paper in recent weeks, scoring jobs at the Post’s rivals including The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. Editors are fleeing, too, the most prominent being managing editor Matea Gold, who joined the Washington bureau of the New York Times in December. The exodus has grown so great that Matt Murray, the Post’s interim executive editor, put a stop to newsroomwide good-bye emails because he believed it was bad for morale — before reversing course amid an outcry.
The flight from the Post is part of the ongoing fallout from owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to pull the editorial board’s endorsement of Kamala Harris last fall, which led to 250,000 subscription cancellations from readers who bought into the Post’s resistance-era identity as a bastion of democracy.
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