This is indeed a major loss. While Wallsten does not have the famous byline, he is an amazingly respected editor and a mensch who is beloved by his reporters. He’s been described to me like the Jenga piece you don’t pull or it all falls down.
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Oliver Darcy
Scoop: Another BIG LOSS for WaPo. Peter Wallsten, the paper's investigations editor who has overseen several Pulitzer Prize-winning pieces of coverage, informed colleagues on Wednesday that he has accepted a job offer at The NYT. link.status.news/40xwDum
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How much blame belongs to Lewis?
Because at present it's not much better than the WP.
This must lessen the paper’s value???
What a ... big change?
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Hoping to go down further.
I wonder what changed?
(That’s not David Hodo. Hodo would never go MAGA.)