The Washington Post is in in trouble. According to a new report out from Vanity Fair, the weekend kerfuffle that saw the departure of Sally Buzbee as executive editor was only compounded on Monday when staff gathered for a meeting only to find that she'd been replaced by two white men. Buzbee had been leading the paper since 2021.

The Post's CEO and publisher Will Lewis told staff that it was time to take "decisive, urgent, action to set us on a different path." One reporter asked Lewis whether "any women or people or color were interviewed and seriously considered for either of these positions." That question, Vanity Fair writes, elicited applause. Buzbee was the first woman executive editor at the Post...

Per the Post, "Like most news organizations, the Post has lost readers — a decline more acute because the Washington-based outlet boomed with the interest in politics during the Trump administration. The Post's website had 101 million unique visitors a month in 2020, and had dropped to 50 million at the end of 2023." The paper is losing money, losing readers, and Lewis is willing to forego the diversity and social justice demands of his reporters.