Days after joining the exodus from the Washington Post by accepting the paper’s buyout offer to journalists who didn’t want to take part in its “reinvention journey,” Glenn Kessler revealed that the Post’s publisher once asked him what they should “do to appeal more to Fox News viewers.”
Kessler, who spent nearly three decades with the Washington Post and was the publication’s fact-checker since 2011, took to Substack Wednesday to explain why he decided to leave the paper. And like many of the veteran columnists and reporters who have ditched the Post recently, he pointed to the shifting editorial policies implemented by billionaire owner Jeff Bezos and the paper’s beleaguered CEO and publisher, Will Lewis.
