Washington Post CEO resigns after layoffs

Washington Post CEO resigns after layoffs

Rome, 8 February (LaPresse/AP) – Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis announced his resignation on Saturday, three days after the struggling newspaper announced the layoff of a third of its staff. Lewis announced his resignation in a two-paragraph e-mail to the newspaper’s staff, stating that after two years of transformation, ‘now is the right time for me to step aside.’ The Post’s chief financial officer, Jeff D’Onofrio, has been named interim publisher.

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