The gesture is notable after major internal backlash over Buzbee's resignation and drama surrounding new CEO Will Lewis.
Former Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee, right, applauds as Patty Stonesifer, center left, is introduced as the paper's interim CEO. Photo: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Former interim Washington Post CEO Patty Stonesifer, a longtime confidant of the Post's owner Jeff Bezos, is planning to throw a party forLewis, a former News Corp. executive, has come under intense fire from staff following Buzbee's departure, the announcement of aThe party will be hosted at Stonesifer's home in Washington in the coming weeks, sources told Axios.an event for Lewis at her home earlier this year when he first took over as CEO and publisher of the Post.
Reports of a recent impasse between her and Lewis have set off alarm bells internally among staff who are worried about the Post's editorial direction under Lewis.Buzbee not to run a story about his alleged ties to the British phone-hacking scandal over a decade ago, according to multiple reports.on Thursday that Lewis offered to give NPR an exclusive interview about the Post's future, as long as the reporter dropped the story about the allegations.
They are frustrated and concerned that the two new editorial leaders Lewis is bringing in are both white men. Sources told Axios that the Post's top two female editors, managing editors Matea Gold and Krissah Thompson, were not considered or even interviewed for either of the two new newsroom editor posts.They don't know how or whether to support the new regime, given the unanswered questions about the interaction between Lewis and Buzbee over the phone-hacking scandal story and the new structure.
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