Mr. Bezos is still engaged, however, weighing in during budgeting season and participating in calls. He declined to comment for this article, but the Post spokeswoman said any suggestion that Mr. Bezos had become less interested in The Post was “absolutely false.”
What we consider before using anonymous sources. How do the sources know the information? What’s their motivation for telling us? Have they proved reliable in the past? Can we corroborate the information? Even with these questions satisfied, The Times uses anonymous sources as a last resort. The reporter and at least one editor know the identity of the source.
Much of the decision-making, though, falls on Mr. Ryan, 67. A former official in the Reagan administration and chief executive of Politico, he came to The Post in 2014. He replaced Katharine Weymouth, a scion of the Graham family, which was The Post’s longtime owner. When Mr. Bezos selected him in 2014, he thanked him for taking the job, adding that Mr. Ryan was “excited to roll up his sleeves.”
The Post’s efforts to diversify its journalism beyond political coverage extends back until at least the summer of 2016. At that time, senior editors considered a plan that would expand the newspaper’s coverage to temper a decline in readership during what they thought would be the presidential administration of Hillary Clinton, according to two people with knowledge of the proposal.
The plan, code-named Operation Skyfall, was set aside after Mr. Trump won the presidential election.
As the importance of moving beyond Washington coverage became more urgent over the past year, Mr. Ryan has given some mixed signals about how ambitiously he wanted to move.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/business/media/washington-post-jeff-bezos-revenue.html
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