{"id":1816378,"date":"2023-01-19T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816378"},"modified":"2023-01-19T17:08:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:08:25","slug":"report-bezos-sits-in-wapo-meeting-as-editors-shape-coverage-about-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-bezos-sits-in-wapo-meeting-as-editors-shape-coverage-about-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Bezos Sits in WaPo Meeting as Editors Shape Coverage About Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-bezos-sits-in-wapo-meeting-as-editors-shape-coverage-about-amazon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816378&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is denied editorial involvement. The founder of Blue Origin, the space venture and owner of The Washington Post participates in an Air Force Association event September 19, 2018, in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images).    <\/p>\n<p>Billionaire<em> Washington Post<\/em> Jeff Bezos (the owner of Amazon) sat in the newsroom meeting on Thursday while employees discussed articles about him and his business interests.<\/p>\n<p>The editors discussed stories about AmazonSmile&#8217;s discontinuation and the impending sale Washington Commanders. Bezos expressed interest in buying them during the meetings. <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/19\/business\/media\/jeff-bezos-washington-post.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Post<\/em> Bezos purchased the newspaper in 2013 and editors insist that he does not interfere with coverage. Marty Baron, a former editor, stated in 2019 that &#8220;he hasn&#8217;t interfered with a single story&#8221; And &#8220;hasn&#8217;t criticized a story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bezos is present at the morning news meetings as the paper becomes unprofitable for first time in many years. The <em>Post<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/washington-post-biden-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/washington-post-biden-fail\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1674245870378000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1_5g6qqtt9GbjV2DIFF5u_\">lost<\/a> Half a million subscribers have been signed up since President Joe Biden was inaugurated, and Fred Ryan, the publisher, announced last month that the paper would be laying off its staff.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos was confronted by a Post employee regarding the layoffs. <em>Times<\/em> reported:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>During the meeting on Thursday, Mr. Bezos\u2019 retinue stood outside the room, earpieces clearly visible. As he left, a Post employee wearing a red shirt emblazoned with the insignia of The Post\u2019s guild stopped him and asked why the company was laying people off without offering buyouts first, according to the three people with knowledge of the meeting. Mr. Bezos responded that he was at The Post to listen, not answer questions, and underscored his commitment to The Post\u2019s journalism.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos sat in on newsroom meetings on Thursday as employees discussed articles about the Amazon founder and his business interests.<br \/>\nThe post Report: Bezos Sits in WaPo Meeting as Editors Shape Coverage About Amazon appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":595690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4558,4092,15686,3711,15685,4470,3819,15687,11390,7115],"class_list":["post-1816378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-amazon","tag-beacon","tag-bezos","tag-coverage","tag-editors","tag-meeting","tag-report","tag-shape","tag-sits","tag-wapo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}