> "...former Post managing editor Eugene Patterson was publisher of the St. Petersburg Times, he insisted the newspaper report his arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol on the front page. Similarly, NPR has reported independently on controversies and the travails of its own leaders.

Lewis comes from a different tradition." (Emphasis mine.)

Indeed.

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Journalism is anathema to biz models dependent on advertising and worried about shareholder values(sic).

Lewis was brought in to boost the Post's declining circulation.

Why does the Post even need to make a profit?

I now don't know why I had once hoped that Jeff Bezos would be good patron of the Post. That he didn't squash the stories about Amazon and himself was a really positive signal.

That kind of noblesse oblige was probably MacKenzie Scott's doing.

For future, I'm hoping ProPublica's model becomes the norm. eg They just announced an ambitious plan with their 50 state strategy.