Revolving Door Newsletter: 07.08.08
Brauchli Named WaPo Exec. Ed.; Quick & Simple, Golf For Women Fold
July 8, 2008
The changing of the guard atop
The Washington Post is complete. Publisher
Katharine Weymouth moved faster than expected in
naming former
Wall Street Journal managing editor
Marcus Brauchli as
Len Downie's successor as executive editor. He's only the paper's third top editor since 1968, when the legendary
Ben Bradlee took over. Weymouth, 42, is a fourth generation Graham family member running the paper, while Brauchli is the first outsider to edit it since her great-grandfather bought it out of bankruptcy in 1933. Brauchli's hire may very well signal a shift away from the local strategy pursued by Downie ...
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