Bob Woodward Rebukes Jeff Bezos in 55-Year Memoir Over Washington Post Legacy
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 26
Bob Woodward Rebukes Jeff Bezos in 55-Year Memoir Over Washington Post Legacy
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 26
Summary
Bob Woodward uses his new memoir “Secrets,” due Nov. 24, to accuse Jeff Bezos of undermining The Washington Post’s legacy by failing to stand behind its journalists.
Woodward writes that Bezos did not interfere directly in news coverage but damaged public trust through sweeping staff cuts, a reoriented editorial page and personal ingratiation toward President Trump.
The criticism carries unusual weight because Woodward remains an associate editor at the Post and recounts Bezos telling him in 2018, before a Trump book, “I’ll always have your back.”
The memoir also breaks with Woodward’s long practice of source secrecy, naming figures from his 55 years of reporting, including presidents, generals, Supreme Court justices and FBI agents.