Washington Post Union Blasts Paper for Suspending Reporter Over Kobe Bryant...
The Washington Post Newspaper Guild has expressed “alarm and dismay” over the suspension of Post reporter Felicia Sonmez. Sonmez, a national political reporter whose byline is on the paper’s front page...
View ArticleThe Washington Post Has Offered to Pay for Suspended Reporter’s Hotel and...
The Washington Post has offered to cover the cost of Felicia Sonmez’s hotel and for a security detail for the reporter, who says she received death threats after she tweeted an article about sexual...
View ArticleWashington Post Clears Suspended Reporter
The Washington Post has cleared reporter Felicia Sonmez, saying an internal review concluded the reporter “was not in clear and direct violation of our social media policy.” The Post suspended Sonmez...
View ArticleCoverage of Kobe Bryant’s Death Is a Test of the #MeToo Era
On Sunday evening, watching the wall-to-wall coverage of Kobe Bryant’s shocking death, I started to wonder if I had misremembered the sexual-assault allegation against him. Was it not as serious, or as...
View ArticleThe Washington Post Needs a New Social Media Policy. Or Maybe Some Better...
Imagine you’re a Washington Post employee with an opinion on whether Washington has America’s best pizza. You’re not on the food desk, but, since you’re a human, you care deeply about pizza. Can you...
View ArticleSimon Denyer Out at the Washington Post
Tokyo bureau chief Simon Denyer will leave the Washington Post, the publication’s foreign desk announced in a terse note Thursday. Denyer, who shared a Pulitzer Prize for the Post’s “2C” project, was...
View ArticleA Washington Post Editor’s “Inappropriate” Tweet Fans the Culture Wars Inside...
Over the weekend, Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery tweeted, then deleted, criticism of a column that called Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger “a real jackass.” The “only...
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