Huge. A towering career at the Post. Ruth Marcus was the acting head of the Opinion section in 2022 (and hired me) — this could have been the person leading it now if Bezos had different priorities.
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Ben Mullin
Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis
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"I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones"
She’s the best TV critic in the business in my view.
Also, she appears to have 3 undergraduate degrees which always makes me smile.
But I'm sure the walking human growth hormone has a plan to keep his paper afloat.