WaPo boss sounds alarm over dwindling audience in heated staff meeting: 'People are not reading your stuff'

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Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis had a blunt message for his staff during a tense meeting following the sudden ouster of executive editor Sally Buzbee, according to the paper's own reporting.

Lewis informed his staff Sunday night that Buzbee, who joined the Post in 2021, was parting ways with the paper "effective immediately." He announced her temporary replacement would be former Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Matt Murray, who is expected to hold the position through the 2024 election cycle, and that the paper was being restructured into "three newsrooms," in hopes of turning things around for the beleaguered "Democracy Dies in Darkness" publication.

The Washington Post reported Monday that "Buzbee was uncomfortable with the structure and did not believe she could be effective in the role" offered to her in a new division of the company. She also reportedly had urged Lewis to hold off on implementing such changes until after the election, which Lewis refused.

The dramatic changes "left the newsroom reeling," according to the Post.

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Lewis, the British media executive who joined the Post earlier this year, addressed the restructuring in a tense newsroom meeting Monday, where he offered a grim assessment of the current state of