n September 4, 2013, the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos held his first meeting with the staff of the Washington Post , the newspaper he had agreed to purchase a month earlier from the Graham family, for two hundred and fifty million dollars

Jenkins, who was in California covering Super Bowl week for the Atlantic , has spent a career studying what accounts for the difference between winning teams and losing ones. Bezos, she said, had been generous with his money and laudable for never interfering in the work of the newsroom. But, she added, “making money at journalism, you have to... See more

I spent more than forty years at the Post , as a reporter, an editor, an editorial writer, and a columnist. I resigned last March, after Bezos announced that the Opinions section, where I worked, would henceforth be concentrating on the twin pillars of “personal liberties and free markets.” More alarming, Bezos advised, “Viewpoints opposing those... See more