Buzbee’s departure comes after writer instructed workers the paper misplaced $77m final 12 months.
The highest editor at The Washington Put up, Sally Buzbee, has stepped down after three years on the helm of probably the most storied publications in the USA.
Buzbee shall be changed by Matt Murray, a former editor-in-chief of the Wall Road Journal, till the 2024 US presidential election in November, the newspaper stated in an announcement on its web site on Sunday.
Robert Winnett, deputy editor of the United Kingdom-based Telegraph Media Group, will then tackle the highest position, the newspaper stated.
The Put up additionally introduced that it will launch “a brand new division of the newsroom” centered on service and social media journalism that can cater to audiences who need to eat and pay for information otherwise than the standard mannequin.
No cause was given for Buzbee’s departure.
CEO and Writer William Lewis, who joined the Put up in January, described Buzbee as an “unbelievable chief and a supremely gifted media govt who shall be sorely missed”.
“I want her all the perfect going ahead,” Lewis stated.
Murray stated he was “deeply honored” to tackle the position and thanked Buzbee for her management.
“I’m excited by Will and Jeff’s imaginative and prescient for The Put up’s subsequent period of progress and reinvention and may’t wait to get began,” he stated, referring to the Put up’s proprietor, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
The shake-up comes because the Put up, like different media firms, has been scuffling with declining revenues.
Final month, Lewis instructed an organization city corridor assembly that the newspaper was bleeding subscribers and had misplaced $77m final 12 months.
“To talk candidly, we’re in a gap, and have been for a while,” Lewis instructed workers, in accordance with the Put up.
As a part of efforts to show across the publication’s funds, Lewis has proposed the creation of a membership program and subscription tiers known as Put up Professional and Put up Plus.
Buzbee, the primary feminine govt editor within the Put up’s 144-year historical past, took over from Marty Baron in 2021 after greater than three a long time at The Related Press.
Underneath Buzbee’s management, the Put up received six Pulitzer Prizes, together with three final month.