Amazon’s founder has long thrived on disrupting industries but the Washington Post may be a challenge too far
Jeff Bezos this week interrupted a holiday in Mykonos, Greece on his $500mn yacht Koru with his fiancée Lauren Sánchez to reassure the agitated journalists of the lossmaking Washington Post. “I know you’ve already heard this from Will, but I wanted to also weigh in directly: the journalistic standards and ethics at The Post will not change,” wrote Amazon’s founder.
By 2018, the Post’s digital readership had expanded, it had returned to profit and his purchase appeared vindicated. “When I am 90, it is going to be one of the things I am most proud of, that I took on the Post and helped them through a very rough transition,” he reflected. He spoke too soon. Below the surface, it remained primarily a metropolitan publication, rather than one with national and global reach, even if its city was Washington, DC.
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