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Washington Post opinion section turns, 2025
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned in January 2025; on 26 February Jeff Bezos announced the opinion section would defend "personal liberties and free markets".
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- 26 Feb 2025
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- Jeff Bezos announced the opinion section would defend personal liberties and free markets Scholarship & press 1
- Ann Telnaes resigned after her cartoon was rejected Scholarship & press 2
- The Washington Post its opinion editor stepped away Scholarship & press 1
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- 26 Feb 2025 Washington Post opinion section turns, 2025
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Jeff Bezos overhauls Washington Post opinion section, says it will focus on 'personal liberties and free markets', NBC News, 2025.
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“We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” he wrote.
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said Wednesday that the paper’s opinion editor has “decided to step away” as the section takes a new direction focusing on “personal liberties and free markets.”
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A Pulitzer winner quits Washington Post after a cartoon on Bezos is killed, NPR, via OPB, 2025.
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post has resigned after its editorial page editor rejected a cartoon she created to mock media and tech titans abasing themselves before President-elect Donald Trump.
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