Overview

• Joe Davidson said his Federal Insider column was killed for being “too opinionated” under a never-formalized policy prohibiting opinion in news sections.
• Davidson linked the constraints to declining staff morale, multiple high-profile departures and a drop in subscriptions to the paper.
• Bezos issued a directive in February to align the newspaper’s opinion pages with personal liberties and free-market principles and to exclude opposing viewpoints.
• Last month the Post appointed Adam O’Neal, formerly of The Economist and The Wall Street Journal, to lead and reshape its opinion section.
• Newsroom contributors continue to express frustration over editorial interventions that they say undermine journalistic independence.