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The Washington Post Looks to Recruit Right-Wing Journalists

The paper’s publisher recently met with the editor-in-chief of the right-wing Free Bacon.

The Washington Post is hiring—but apparently only if you’re the kind of journalist that will steer the paper further toward the right. Publisher Will Lewis recently met with Eliana Johnson, the editor-in-chief of the right-wing outlet The Washington Free Beacon, to discuss how she could help recruit more right-leaning reporters, according to Status. The move is the latest sign that owner Jeff Bezos is intent on steering the paper further to the right—following his controversial decision to block the paper from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president in 2024 along with an announcement last week that the opinion section would be “writing every day in support and defense of free markets and personal liberties.” The Post’s Opinions editor David Shipley promptly resigned and the financially struggling paper lost 75,000 subscribers upon the announcement. One staffer told Status there’s “a lot of confusion” as leadership reshuffles the newsroom, while many of the paper’s top journalists have already jumped ship. A former reporter told Status that even when they had worked in other “messy newsrooms,” they could always justify working there. “I can make no such case about The Post anymore," they said.