OPINION - The perilous position of the Brit in charge at the Washington Post

Will Lewis has been criticised for the paper’s neutrality in the presidential election - (AP)

Presumably, Will Lewis possesses a rock-solid employment contract.

For right now, it would be difficult betting on how long he will last as chief executive of the Washington Post. Ever since Lewis, a Brit, former editor of the Telegraph, senior executive under Rupert Murdoch and created a ‘Sir’ by Boris Johnson, took the job he has been mired in conflict with the US paper’s journalists.