Current section
The Wednesday layoffs, including its entire Middle East foreign reporting team, have been widely derided by Post employees, with many decrying Lewis' controversy-ridden stewardship of the paper. Lewis announced his departure in a two-paragraph email to the newspaper's staff
Print in a simple, ad-free format
Ad-free and in a comfortable reading format
Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he's stepping down, ending a troubled tenure three days after the newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff, including its entire Middle East foreign reporting team.
