Longtime Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus submitted her resignation on Monday after an op-ed she wrote disagreeing with owner Jeff Bezos’ new mandate for the storied paper’s opinion page was rejected by the Post’s publisher.
Marcus — who has been with the Post since 1984 as an editor, reporter and columnist — sent her resignation letter to both Bezos and publisher Will Lewis, telling them that she had never encountered one of her pieces being rejected in her nearly 20 years of column-writing. The letter was first reported by The New York Times.
