{"id":108108,"date":"2026-02-07T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108108\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:42:09","slug":"washington-post-publisher-will-lewis-says-hes-stepping-down-days-after-big-layoffs-at-the-paper-ap-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108108\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he&#8217;s stepping down, days after big layoffs at the paper | Ap-business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he\u2019s stepping down, three days after the troubled newspaper said that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/washington-post-staff-reduction-layoffs-cuts-923f87d4bd319c8a64b278165d0a6e27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">laying off one-third of its staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis sent an email to the Post\u2019s staff, saying that \u201cdifficult decisions have been taken in order to ensure the sustainable future of The Post.\u201d Lewis and the newspaper\u2019s billionaire owner <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/jeff-bezos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bezos<\/a>, did not participate in a meeting with staff announcing the layoffs this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s chief financial officer, Jeff D\u2019Onofrio, was named acting publisher and CEO. He joined the newspaper only last June.<\/p>\n<p>The British-born Lewis was a former top executive at The Wall Street Journal before taking over at The Post in January 2024. His tenure has been <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/post-publisher-phone-hacking-9fc4c12509ef8e567fe94f679506de97\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rocky from the start<\/a>, marked by layoffs and a failed reorganization plan that led to the departure of former top editor Sally Buzbee.<\/p>\n<p>The Post also lost tens of thousand of subscribers following Bezos\u2019 order late in the presidential campaign pulling back an expected endorsement of Kamala Harris for president, and subsequent changes to turn the editorial pages in a more conservative direction.<\/p>\n<p>While anticipated, this past week\u2019s layoffs were deeper than anticipated, resulting in the shutting down of the Post\u2019s renowned sports section, sharp cutbacks in foreign and metro coverage, and the laying off of its photographic staff.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he\u2019s stepping down, three days after the troubled newspaper said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,14809,60,1681,38,48284,59,51941,10224,51940],"class_list":{"0":"post-108108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-books-and-literature","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-jobs-and-careers","16":"tag-labor","17":"tag-media-and-entertainment-industry","18":"tag-washington-news","19":"tag-washington-post-will-lewis-stepping-down-layoffs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}