Rob Winnett won’t be becoming a member of The Washington Submit as editor this fall, the primary main fallout after a workers revolt over CEO Will Lewis‘ abrupt change in newsroom management and stories which have raised moral issues.
Winnett, deputy editor of The Telegraph Media Group, has determined to remain within the UK. Chris Evans, the editor of the Telegraph, wrote in a memo to staffers, per the Submit, “I’m happy to report that Rob Winnett has determined to stick with us. As you all know, he’s a gifted chap and their loss is our achieve.”
Winnett was to have turn into editor as a part of a restructured management plan laid out earlier this month by Lewis. Sally Buzbee, the chief editor, departed, and Winnett was to have overseen protection areas together with politics, investigations, enterprise, expertise, sports activities and options, whereas Matt Murray, the previous editor in chief of The Wall Road Journal, was to supervise a brand new division dubbed the “third newsroom,” devoted to successful over new readers with new varieties of content material.
However the shakeup rapidly bumped into controversy among the many newsroom workers, who questioned Lewis on the departure of Buzbee; how Winnett, one in every of his former colleagues, was chosen; and the course of the publication. Then there have been stories that triggered additional issues over previous editorial practices by Winnett and Lewis earlier of their careers within the UK.
Below plans set out earlier this month, Murray will lead the newsroom via the election. Winnett was to have turn into editor after that, and Murray would then shift to the “third newsroom” enterprise.
A Submit spokesperson didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
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