The Washington Post’s former CEO once offered a pitch for staff cuts so off the mark that even the paper’s billionaire owner couldn’t get on board.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos was apparently “confounded” by Will Lewis’s broader strategies to make the Washington Post profitable, including a plan to make significant staff reductions, Status reported Wednesday. Lewis is out at the paper a few years after Bezos appointed him CEO and publisher of the legacy newsroom.
Lewis, 56, made a hasty exit from the Post on Saturday—just three days after the company laid off roughly 30 percent of its staff. The Amazon founder reportedly reached his breaking point with his chief executive after a red-cheeked Lewis was seen strutting down a red carpet the day after the newsroom was gutted.
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