Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is overhauling the newspaper’s opinion section to focus more narrowly on two topics — personal liberties and free markets — in the most sweeping intervention into its editorial pages by the US technology billionaire.
Bezos said opinion editor David Shipley had opted to stand down as a result of the shake-up of the award-winning section, in an email to staff that was also posted on social media on Wednesday.
Shipley had been given the option to remain as editor of the section, Bezos said, but the Amazon founder had “suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t ‘hell yes’, then it had to be ‘no.’ After careful consideration, David decided to step away.”
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