Overview
- Jonathan Capehart, a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist, accepted a voluntary buyout and will step down after 18 years with the paper’s Opinion section.
- CEO Will Lewis rolled out a voluntary separation program for staffers who did not “feel aligned” with the section’s new editorial mandate.
- In February, owner Jeff Bezos directed the Opinion pages to write daily in defense of personal liberties, free markets and related pillars.
- Capehart plans to continue co-hosting MSNBC’s “The Weekend” and serving as a panelist on PBS’s “NewsHour” after his departure.
- His move follows earlier exits by opinion editor David Shipley and columnists Ruth Marcus, Eugene Robinson and Joe Davidson.