Jeff Bezos
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Washington Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece
“Trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press,” the Pulitzer Prize winner says of her former employer
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Elon Musk Crashing Trump’s Jeff Bezos Dinner at Mar-a-Lago Mocked as ‘Deranged’
“Everybody wants to be my friend!” Trump exclaimed on Truth Social the morning after the dinner
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MacKenzie Scott Donates Another $2 Billion in 2024 to 199 ‘Mission-Aligned Ventures’
Scott said she wants to focus on helping “generally undercapitalized groups” like women and people of color with her “gifts”
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Jeff Bezos Also Donates $1M to Trump Inauguration Fund
The Amazon founder’s monetary gift comes one day after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta donated the same amount
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Jeff Bezos Is ‘Very Proud’ Washington Post Didn’t Endorse Kamala Harris: ‘Right Decision’
“You can’t do the wrong thing because you’re worried about bad PR,” the billionaire newspaper owner says at the DealBook Summit
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Washington Post Promotes Liz Seymour to Managing Editor
The veteran editor will join three other WaPo employees who share the same title
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Jeff Bezos Congratulates Trump on ‘Extraordinary Political Comeback’
“Wishing Donald Trump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love,” the Amazon founder said in a Wednesday X post
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Washington Post App Downloads Jump 12% After Non-Endorsement
Jeff Bezos’ decision to nix endorsing Kamala Harris is potentially “generating support from a new audience,” according to Sensor Tower
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Washington Post’s TikTok Team Head Roasts Jeff Bezos – on TikTok – Over Axed Kamala Harris Endorsement | Video
The short clip shared by Dave Jorgenson mocks the justifications Bezos and WaPo leaders have offered for actions that have since cost the paper 200K subscribers
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Jeff Bezos Denies Business Interests Influenced Decision to Kill Kamala Harris Endorsement
The billionaire Washington Post owner cites cratering public trust in media to justify move that has cost the paper hundreds of thousands of subscribers and caused high profile resignations
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Washington Post Loses Over 200,000 Subscribers After Bezos Nixes Harris Endorsement
The lost subscribers represent about 8% of the paper’s total paid circulation
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2 More Washington Post Writers Quit Editorial Board Over Scrapped Kamala Harris Endorsement
Pulitzer Prize winner David Hoffman and tech writer Molly Roberts resigned from the role on Monday
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Billionaires, Newspapers and Politics – A Dangerous Mix
A free and vibrant press is the single, indispensable pillar of a democracy. And those institutions are at risk
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Woodward and Bernstein Slam Jeff Bezos for Canceled Kamala Harris Endorsement: ‘Surprising and Disappointing’
The reporters who broke the Watergate scandal say the decision ignores the Washington Post’s “overwhelming” evidence about the threat Trump poses to democracy
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Washington Post Resignations and Cancellations Begin, Guild Says Bezos Axed Endorsement: ‘Management Interfered’
“This decision undercuts the work of our members at a time when we should be building our readers’ trust, not losing it,” the guild writes
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