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The WaPo’s Momentous Non-Bennet-Quake

After months of speculation and second-guessing, Washington Post Co. C.E.O. Fred Ryan has selected Fred Hiatt’s successor as editorial page editor, one of the most august and coveted political posts in this town.

Fred Ryan
Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan. Photo: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
July 7, 2022

One of the funny observations about life inside the imperial jewels of American journalism is just how much their cultures resemble official Washington. Perhaps this isn’t a surprise, given that journalism, like government, is largely the province of people who went to elite schools, aren’t financially obsessed, and presumably spent their formative years toiling in model U.N. and student government.