"Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was reportedly angry with now-former CEO Will Lewis partying it up in San Francisco during Super Bowl Week, right as he was laying off hundreds of employees at the paper. The Financial Times on Saturday night reported that was the last straw for Lewis, according to one newsroom source. Bezos lost patience after the Super Bowl thing, the source told FT."
"Senior management at The Post were livid when they discovered that Lewis was attending festivities around the Super Bowl in San Francisco around the time of the news of the jobs cuts, the source told FT. It came off as callous.' Lewis heading to the Bay Area was noticed by a number of journalists this week on X. His trip coincided with WaPo cutting around 300 jobs an editorial bloodbath that resulted in the shuttering of its sports and books departments."
Jeff Bezos became angry after Washington Post CEO Will Lewis attended Super Bowl Week festivities in San Francisco while the paper was implementing mass layoffs. Lewis resigned as chief executive and publisher shortly afterward. Senior management and newsroom staff reacted with outrage, viewing attendance at the events during cuts as callous. The Post cut roughly 300 jobs, closing its sports and books departments and eliminating many foreign reporting and Metro positions. Lewis had already lost support after failing to publicly back reporter Hannah Natanson following an FBI raid on her home that seized multiple devices, which staff viewed as escalation by President Donald Trump.
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