Welcome back to In the Room. In tonight’s email, news and notes on the impending arrival of new Washington Post editor Rob Winnett, the Fleet Street veteran who, in the wake of the Lewis-Buzbee imbroglio, has become the new focal point of newsroom angst.

But first…

⛰️ Paramount’s biggest problem: For you Paramount watchers at S.V.B. and the Polo Lounge, my colleague Matt Belloni had an excellent new column out last night that pinpoints the real source of the company’s problem: Shari. “By putting the company up for sale, negotiating publicly for six months, and nuking a fully negotiated deal at the goal line, it’s Shari who has likely set Paramount on a downward spiral of chaos and uncertainty,” Matt writes. “Weak companies that call off transformative transactions at the last minute generally don’t get better in the aftermath.”

✂️ The coming CNN cuts: On Wednesday, I reported that CNN will endure more layoffs in the months ahead, and that department leaders have already been asked to submit names of staffers who might potentially be cut. Despite a spokesperson telling me that “no final decisions have been made,” I’m now told the layoffs are likely to be more significant than I’d perhaps appreciated (even if they happen incrementally, rather than all at once). Of course, CNN has already winnowed considerably over the last decade: from north of 4,200 employees during the Zucker era to under 3,500 today.

Winnett, of course, doesn’t appear to be cut from the same cloth as Bradlee or Baron. He is Lewis’s longtime protégé—the two worked together at the Sunday Times of London and then The Telegraph. (Lewis was the editor of the paper during the expenses scandal.) Given the suddenly renewed scrutiny over Lewis’s adjacency to the phone-hacking scandal, many Posties feared that the new leadership might portend an incursion of controversial Fleet Street ethics into the proudly reputable House of Woodward and Bernstein.

Other reports have highlighted TheTelegraph’s practice of sending reporters into cabinet offices, posing as temps or constituents, to ferret out confidential information or unsavory quotes. (This is how TheTelegraph exposed minister Vince Cable’s critical remarks about Rupert Murdoch, for whom Lewis would later work.) Critical coverage of Lewis and Winnett’s past practices, as well as Lewis’s efforts to re-establish trust with his newsroom, have become especially noticeable at Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles’ Daily Beast.

One question that has yet to receive quite as much scrutiny is the matter of TheTelegraph’s politics. Winnett seems to relish tough coverage of politicians no matter their stripe. But the paper itself is, of course, a Tory broadsheet, and in recent years it has tacked harder and harder to the right. It’s also been very profitable, I’m told, on course to make around £65 million this year, or about $80 million. Indeed, Jeff Zucker spent considerable time trying to acquire the paper, along with The Spectator, although the deal eventually fell apart.

During these tours, Posties have expressed their fulsome anxieties and questions about Winnett—these are journalists, after all—which Lewis has tried to assuage. In one meeting earlier this week, Lewis told staff that Winnett would spend his first two months embedding with reporters, in Washington and on the campaign trail, before officially taking the reins of the newsroom after the election. At that point, the very well-liked interim editor Matt Murray will become head of the aforementioned “third newsroom.” (This being the charitable industry it is, some of Murray’s old colleagues are already second-guessing how he will fare in a role he largely overlooked at his old stomping grounds.)

Epic convulsions, in some ways, are part of the Post’s recent DNA, and they certainly dotted the waning years of the Fred Ryan era. What’s become clear in the past week, however, is that Lewis isn’t going anywhere. As I noted last week, Jeff Bezos would never evict his C.E.O. for invoking, however clumsily, a plan that he had personally approved. Meanwhile, Axios reported this week that Lewis was laying down roots in the form of a stately $7 million place in Georgetown.

When all of this was first going down, one media executive reached out to me with the suggestion that the Post’s top talent would now be flight risks. It seemed reasonable, but at the same time, if they had wanted to leave for the Times or CNN or whatever, they likely would have already done so after the Ryan town hall or some other micro-scandal. Instead, I surmised, the Posties seem to be digging in. Like him or not, Winnett will be one of theirs soon enough.