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Emma Hinchliffe, Joseph Abrams

The Washington Post and the future of diversity in media

(Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post—Getty Images)

Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Rihanna unveils new Fenty Hair line, GM CEO Mary Barra still sees an all-EV future for the automaker, and the Washington Post shows what can happen to diversity during a business crisis. Have a thoughtful Thursday!

- Top story. Everyone in journalism this week is talking about the Washington Post, where new CEO William Lewis announced a plan to split the newsroom into three divisions—one focused on reaching news consumers in new ways—with separate leaders rather than a sole editor-in-chief.

The problem? All of those leaders named so far were white men (former Wall Street Journal editor Matt Murray, the Telegraph's Robert Winnett, and current Post opinions editor David Shipley). And Sally Buzbee, the former editor of the Associated Press who took over the Post's newsroom three years ago, is out of the picture.

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