2026年2月7日 / 美国东部时间下午6:55 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
备受争议的《华盛顿邮报》首席执行官兼出版商威尔·刘易斯在这家传奇报纸裁员约三分之一员工仅三天后便辞职。
周六，刘易斯向员工发送了一份备忘录，并由员工在社交媒体上分享。他在备忘录中写道：”经过两年的转型，现在是我让贤的合适时机。”
“在我任职期间，为确保《邮报》的可持续发展，必须做出艰难抉择，这样它才能在未来多年每天为数百万读者发表高质量的无党派新闻，”他写道。
刘易斯还感谢《华盛顿邮报》所有者杰夫·贝佐斯”的支持和领导”。
该报在一份未提及刘易斯的声明中宣布，杰夫·多诺弗里奥将”立即”担任代理出版商一职。多诺弗里奥自2025年6月起担任《邮报》首席财务官，此前曾担任社交媒体平台Tumblr的首席执行官。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系《邮报》寻求置评。
刘易斯自2023年11月起担任《邮报》出版商。在加入《邮报》之前，他于2014年至2020年担任《华尔街日报》出版商。
周三，《邮报》执行主编马特·默里在Zoom会议上宣布了裁员消息。据多家媒体报道，刘易斯据称缺席了此次Zoom会议，因此受到员工批评。
作为裁员计划的一部分，《邮报》缩减了其国际新闻报道，并关闭了部分版面，包括体育版。
默里在致编辑部的一封信中（该信已提供给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻）表示，重组计划旨在”使《华盛顿邮报》站稳脚跟”，并使其在”新技术不断涌现、用户习惯不断演变的快速变化时代”中更具竞争力。
《邮报》一位发言人向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻证实，此次裁员影响了约三分之一的编辑部员工。
《邮报》2013年至2021年的执行主编马丁·巴伦本周早些时候接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，批评了该报近期的一些编辑决策，包括在2024年全国大选前几天未支持任何总统候选人这一有争议的举动，他表示这损害了该报的声誉。
他还指责贝佐斯将他的其他企业——亚马逊和蓝色起源——置于《邮报》之上。
玛丽·坎宁安对本报道有贡献。
Washington Post publisher Will Lewis resigns just days after paper enacts mass layoffs
February 7, 2026 / 6:55 PM EST / CBS News
Will Lewis, the embattled CEO and publisher of the Washington Post, has resigned just three days after the storied newspaper laid off about one-third of its staff.
In a note sent to employees Saturday and shared by them on social media, Lewis wrote that “after two years of transformation, now is the right time for me to step aside.”
“During my tenure, difficult decisions had to be taken in order to ensure the sustainable future of The Post so it can for many years ahead publish high-quality nonpartisan news to millions of customers each day,” he wrote.
Lewis also thanked Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos “for his support and leadership.”
The Post announced in a statement — which did not mention Lewis — that Jeff D’Onofrio would “immediately” take on the role of acting publisher. D’Onofrio has been the Post’s chief financial officer since June 2025. He was also previously CEO of the social media platform Tumblr.
CBS News has reached out to the Post for comment.
Lewis had been in the role of Post publisher since November 2023. Prior to coming to the Post, he was the publisher of the Wall Street Journal from 2014 to 2020.
On Wednesday, Post executive editor Matt Murray announced the layoffs on a Zoom call. Lewis received criticism from employees after he was allegedly absent from that Zoom call, according to multiple media reports.
As part of its layoffs, the Post scaled back its foreign news coverage and shut down some sections of the paper, including sports.
In a letter to the newsroom shared with CBS News, Murray wrote that the restructuring plans are intended to “place The Washington Post on a stronger footing” and better position the paper in a “rapidly changing era of new technologies and evolving user habits.”
A Post spokesperson confirmed to CBS News that the cuts impacted about one-third of the newsroom.
Speaking to CBS News earlier this week, Martin Baron, executive editor of the Post from 2013 to 2021, was critical of its leadership for some of its more recent editorial decisions, including a controversial move not to endorse a presidential candidate in the days before the 2024 national election, which he said hurt the paper’s reputation.
He also directed blame at Bezos for prioritizing his other businesses — Amazon and Blue Origin — over the Post.
Mary Cunningham contributed to this report.
