The newsroom had lost so much faith in Lewis that, in recent weeks, journalists appealed directly in letters to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the paper's owner, to spare the paper from cuts and help it find financial stability. The approach came at a cost to Bezos: Trump, who often denounced the paper as the "Amazon Washington Post," took umbrage when Amazon was expected to land a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon. As NPR reported just weeks before Lewis started at the Post, a group of plaintiffs suing Murdoch's British tabloids in London argued in court that Lewis was at the heart of a concerted effort to hide evidence of criminality at the papers.
Author: David Folkenflik
Published at: 2026-02-07 23:19:21
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