Washington Post Ceo Urges Staffers Who Don't 'feel Aligned' With Paper's New Direction To Take Buyout

Washington Post patient and CEO Will Lewis is urging staffers who don't "feel aligned" pinch nan paper's caller guidance to return a buyout and leave. 

In a memo sent to unit Wednesday, Lewis touted nan Post's "reinvention journey" it has taken successful caller months, including its "reimagining" of its sentiment pages that "champion American values" among different institution initiatives. 

"The infinitesimal demands that we proceed to rethink each aspects of our statement and business to maximize our impact," Lewis wrote successful nan memo obtained by Fox News Digital. "If we want to reconnect pinch our assemblage and proceed to take sides democracy, much changes astatine The Post will beryllium necessary. And to succeed, we request to beryllium agreed arsenic a squad pinch a beardown belief and passion successful wherever we are heading."

"I understand and respect, however, that our chosen way is not for everyone," he continued. "That’s precisely why we introduced nan voluntary separation program. As we proceed successful this caller direction, I want to inquire those who do not consciousness aligned pinch the company’s plan to bespeak connected that. The VSP is designed to support you successful making this decision, springiness you nan expertise to measurement your options thoughtfully and pinch little interest astir financial consequences. And if you deliberation that it’s clip to move connected to a caller chapter, nan VSP helps you return that adjacent measurement pinch much security."

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Washington Post patient and CEO Will Lewis urged staffers who aren't "aligned" pinch nan paper's caller guidance to return a buyout and time off nan company. (Elliott O'Donovan for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

"Regardless of what you decide, I want to convey each of you for everything you person done for this organization. If you take to move distant from The Post, convey you for each your contributions, and I genuinely wish you nan champion of luck. If you judge successful our adjacent chapter, I’m excited for nan activity up of us," Lewis concluded nan memo. 

The Washington Post did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. 

Lewis' memo came little than 2 months aft nan insubstantial launched its latest buyout program specifically targeting seasoned staffers that would reason astatine nan extremity of July. 

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The Washington Post antecedently launched different buyout programme targeting longtime staffers. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

According to a VSP archive antecedently viewed by Fox News Digital, 9 months of guidelines salary would beryllium fixed to staffers employed for 10-15 years, 12 months of guidelines salary for 15-20-year veterans, 15 months of guidelines salary for 20-25-year veterans and 18 months for anyone who has worked astatine nan Post for much than 25 years. All of them would besides person 12 months of salary in installments successful their Separate Retirement Account (SRA). 

The Post has suffered a melodramatic diminution successful subscriptions, which was further fueled by aggregate boycott campaigns against nan "Democracy Dies successful Darkness" insubstantial complete decisions made by its billionaire proprietor Jeff Bezos. 

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Liberals person been outraged by immoderate of nan decisions made by The Washington Post's billionaire proprietor Jeff Bezos successful caller months.  ((Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)

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The first was successful October erstwhile Bezos halted nan paper's endorsement of then-Vice President Kamala Harris conscionable days earlier nan November election. The 2nd was successful February erstwhile Bezos announced his directive for nan Post's editorial pages to beforehand "personal liberties and free markets" and vowed not to people pieces opposing those principles. 

Both instances sparked a wide exodus of paid subscribers and respective resignations, including sentiment editor David Shipley, who opposed Bezos' caller policy. Last month, nan Post tapped Adam O'Neal, formerly of The Economist and The Wall Street Journal, to lead nan sentiment pages.