Washington Post Editor Ruth Marcus resigned over CEO William Lewis’ decision not to run her column “respectfully dissenting” from the newspaper’s new editorial policy, it was reported Monday.
Marcus’ decision came less than two weeks after Post owner Jeff Bezos said the newspaper’s opinion pages would emphasize “personal liberties and free markets.”
“It is with great sadness that I submit my resignation as columnist and associate editor of The Washington Post,” Marcus wrote in a letter to Bezos and Lewis, according to New York Times reporter Ben Mullin.
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