Overview

• Joe Davidson left after his Federal Insider column was killed for being “too opinionated” under a newly enforced ban on opinion in News section articles
• Davidson accused Bezos’s policies of projecting a Donald Trump supplicant image, citing the blocked Kamala Harris endorsement and reduced critical scrutiny of the president
• Five senior editors resigned earlier in response to Bezos’s directives and opinion editor David Shipley stepped down after new guidelines were imposed
• The Post lost over 250,000 subscribers following Bezos’s intervention in presidential endorsements and continues to report subscriber declines
• Bezos has named Adam O’Neal to lead the Opinion pages under a mandate to emphasize personal liberties and free markets