Washington Publish editor resigns after accusing CEO of killing column

Washington Publish columnist Ruth Marcus resigned Monday after accusing the paper’s CEO and writer of killing her column criticizing proprietor Jeff Bezos’ newest editorial edict.

Marcus, an affiliate editor and columnist with The Publish’s opinion part, is leaving the paper the place she’s been employed since 1984.

“We’re grateful for Ruth’s important contributions to The Washington Publish over the previous 40 years,” a spokesperson for The Washington Publish stated in a press release to NBC Information. “We respect her resolution to go away and need her one of the best.”

In a resignation letter to Bezos and CEO William Lewis, Marcus stated “unbiased judgement” is not in play at The Publish opinion part and new editorial insurance policies will “break the belief of readers that columnists are writing what they consider, and never what the homeowners has deemed acceptable.”

Bezos, the Amazon founder who bought the venerable publication in 2013, instructed the employees final month that the opinion part would take a radical flip by “writing every single day in assist and protection” of “private liberties and free markets.”

Marcus stated she wrote a column deviating from Bezos’ edict— and Lewis spiked it.

“Will’s resolution to not run the column that I wrote respectfully dissenting from Jeff’s edict — one thing that I’ve not skilled in virtually 20 years of column-writing — underscores that the standard freedom of columnists to pick out matters they want to tackle and say what they assume has been dangerously eroded,” Marcus wrote in her resignation, in accordance with The New York Occasions.

Bezos’ sudden coverage change prompted the resignation of opinion editor David Shipley and has been interpreted as a bid to curry favor with President Donald Trump.

Bezos and different prosperous tech titans raised eyebrows in January by attending the president’s inauguration.

“I really like the Publish,” Marcus concluded her resignation letter. “It breaks my coronary heart to conclude that I need to depart. I’ve the deepest affection and admiration for my colleagues and can miss them every single day. And I want you each one of the best as you steer this storied and important establishment via troubled instances.”

Marcus couldn’t be instantly reached for touch upon Monday.