[Washington] Post names Frederick J. Ryan Jr. as new publisher

Washington Post ^ | September 2 at 11:55 AM | Craig Timberg

[GonzoII]

Washington Post owner Jeffrey P. Bezos is replacing Publisher Katharine Weymouth with Frederick J. Ryan Jr., a former Reagan administration official who was part of the founding leadership team of Politico, a primarily digital news organization that competes with The Post on political coverage, the company announced Tuesday.

The departure of Weymouth, 48, ends eight decades of Graham family leadership of The Post, which her great-grandfather bought in 1933. Bezos, who acquired The Post for $250  million in a sale announced in August 2013, initially kept the senior leadership team intact. He told Weymouth during a visit to Washington, on Aug. 18, that he had selected a new publisher, according to people familiar with the decision. She will remain on the company payroll as an adviser through the end of the year.

Ryan, 59, an attorney, spent years rising in the Reagan administration, eventually becoming a top presidential aide and key leader in the construction of his presidential library and numerous other initiatives after Reagan left office in 1989.

[fifedom]

Interesting, a Reagan admin official. But Politico is a far-left site so I do not expect any change in the WaPo’s leftist slant.

[Bubba_Leroy]

So does anyone know if he is more or less of a left wing liberal than the one he replaced?

He was with the Reagan administration, which gives some cause for hope. But far more recently he was with Politico, which would indicate that he is in the tank for the Democrats.

[Forgotten Amendments]

So does anyone know if he is more or less of a left wing liberal than the one he replaced?

She was a neocon. The Post has become the daily home of the neocons and if Fred Hiatt is staying there, nothing much will change. Oh boy, more Michael Gerson!

I believe her sister is Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads).

[Gay State Conservative]

Now,about those deck chairs....

[elhombrelibre]

Can’t he say no?

[detective]

The Washington Post has lost money for years. It congratulates itself at being influential. That means it parrots the opinions and biases of the Washington D.C. elite.

For years the slimy, fraudulent Kaplan Company supported the Wash Post organization. Newsweek went bankrupt and had to be gotten rid. Then they got Bezos to pay $350 million for the Washington Post.

It has been losing money since he bought it and the situation is getting worse. My Guess is Ms. Weymouth wanted to get out before things got really bad.

I get have gotten letters in the mail every few months for the last ten or fifteen years offering me special discounted rates to subscribe to the Washington Post.