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Fred Ryan’s Re-Election

Questions about Ryan’s leadership have become widespread at the Post, where the gulf between the paper and the Times widens, and the finger-pointing has taken hold.

Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee and C.EO. and publisher Fred Ryan.
Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee and C.EO. and publisher Fred Ryan. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
November 19, 2022

Every St. Patrick’s Day, Fred Ryan, the publisher and C.E.O. of The Washington Post, hosts a party at the George Town Club on Wisconsin Avenue for various members of the D.C. political-media establishment. Attired in green or Irish plaid, the svelte, gray-haired media executive holds court among some old friends from the Reagan White House; some senior Post executives and journalists; and various fixtures of what one attendee described as “Old Washington.”