Ex-Washington Post editor Marty Baron rebukes Bezos: ‘betrayal of free expression’

Marty Baron is dismayed over Jeff Bezos’s move to shift the Washington Post’s opinion section. Photograph: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Marty Baron, a highly regarded former editor of the Washington Post, has said that Jeff Bezos’s announcement that the newspaper’s opinion section would narrow its editorial focus was a “betrayal of the very idea of free expression” that had left him “appalled”.

In an interview with the Guardian, Baron also said: “I don’t think that [Bezos] wants an editorial page that’s regularly going after Donald Trump.”