The Washington Post
American daily newspaper
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| January 2025 | Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post and published a blog post criticizing the paper for allegedly refusing to run a cartoon critical of the relationship between American billionaires and President Donald Trump. |
| January 2025 | The Post announced it will layoff 4% of its staff, less than 100 people, with newsroom employees not being affected. |
| 2024 | William Lewis becomes the publisher, and Matt Murray is appointed as the new Executive Editor of The Washington Post. |
| 2024 | CEO and publisher William Lewis announces the Post will not endorse a presidential candidate, breaking its long-standing tradition of supporting Democratic candidates. |
| June 2024 | Incoming editor Robert Winnett withdrew from his position after a story exposed his alleged connection to John Ford, a man known for using deception and illegal means to obtain confidential information. |
| May 2024 | CEO and publisher William Lewis announced the organization would embrace artificial intelligence to improve the paper's financial situation. |
| October 2023 | The Post announced it would cut 240 jobs across the organization by offering voluntary separation packages to employees. |
| 2022 | Actor Johnny Depp successfully sued ex-wife Amber Heard over an op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post about domestic abuse, which had previously accused him of domestic violence. |
| June 2022 | Following a Twitter feud between Felicia Sonmez and fellow Post staffers David Weigel and Jose A. Del Real, Weigel was suspended for a month, and Sonmez was ultimately fired for alleged misconduct and violation of workplace standards. |
| March 2022 | Reporter Paul Farhi was suspended for five days without pay after tweeting about the publication's policy on bylines and datelines for Russian-based stories. |
| 2021 | Martin Baron steps down as Executive Editor after nine years, and Sally Buzbee takes over the role. |
| July 2021 | Felicia Sonmez filed a workplace discrimination lawsuit against The Washington Post and several of its top editors, which was subsequently dismissed in March 2022. |
| 2020 | The Washington Post changed the headline of an op-ed titled 'It's time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president' without an editor's note, after receiving public backlash. |
| 2020 | The Post won the Webby People's Voice Award for News & Politics in the Social and Web categories. |
| 2020 | The Washington Post settled the defamation lawsuit with Nick Sandmann for an undisclosed amount. |
| 2020 | The Washington Post suspended reporter Felicia Sonmez after she posted tweets about a 2003 rape allegation against Kobe Bryant following his death. She was later reinstated after over 200 Post journalists wrote an open letter criticizing the suspension. |
| 2020 | During the Democratic Party presidential primaries, Senator Bernie Sanders criticized The Washington Post, claiming biased coverage of his campaign due to Jeff Bezos' ownership. Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron rejected these claims as 'baseless and conspiratorial'. |
| 2020 | Freedom House published a report titled 'Beijing's Global Megaphone', criticizing The Washington Post and other newspapers for distributing 'China Watch' advertising supplements. |
| February 2020 | 35 Republican members of the U.S. Congress wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice calling for an investigation of potential FARA violations by China Daily, specifically citing a Post article about education and Hong Kong unrest. |
| 2019 | The Washington Post ceased running 'China Watch' advertising supplements according to The Guardian. |
| 2019 | Nick Sandmann, a Covington Catholic High School student, filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post regarding coverage of the Lincoln Memorial confrontation between Covington students and Indigenous Peoples March participants. |
| October 28 2019 | The defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post was reopened after Sandmann's lawyers amended their initial complaint. |
| 2018 | Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents in Istanbul. |
| August 2018 | By August 2018, President Donald Trump had tweeted or retweeted criticism of The Washington Post over 20 times, often linking the paper to Amazon and attacking its journalists. |
| June 2018 | Over 400 Washington Post employees signed an open letter to owner Jeff Bezos demanding fair wages, benefits, and job security, highlighting concerns about low salary increases that were less than half the rate of inflation. |
| 2017 | The newspaper hired Jamal Khashoggi as a columnist. |
| February 2017 | The Washington Post adopts the slogan 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' for its masthead. |
| September 2016 | Matthew Ingram, Glenn Greenwald, and Trevor Timm criticize the Post for its stance on Edward Snowden and espionage charges. |
| 2015 | The Washington Post moved from its owned building at 1150 15th Street to a leased space at One Franklin Square on K Street. |
| 2014 | George Will wrote a controversial column on campus sexual assault that sparked significant criticism. |
| May 2014 | The Washington Post leased the west tower of One Franklin Square, a high-rise building at 1301 K Street NW in Washington, D.C. |
| November 2013 | Graham Holdings sold its real estate properties at 1150 15th Street, 1515 L Street, 1523 L Street, and land beneath 1100 15th Street for $159 million after selling the newspaper to Jeff Bezos' Nash Holdings. |
| October 2013 | The Graham family sold the newspaper to Jeff Bezos's Nash Holdings for $250 million. |
| August 2013 | Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post and other local publications, websites, and real estate, transferring ownership to Nash Holdings LLC, his private investment company. |
| June 2012 | Washington Post Live organized 'The 40th Anniversary of Watergate' event at the Watergate hotel, featuring key Watergate figures including John Dean, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein. |
| 2011 | The Washington Post began including 'China Watch' advertising supplements from China Daily in both print and online editions, which were owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 2011 | The Washington Post begins running 'The Fact Checker' column, which receives a $250,000 grant from Google News Initiative/YouTube to expand video fact checks. |
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