Pulitzer Prize-winner David Hoffman's full letter to Post Opinion editor David Shipley, stepping down from the editorial board: "I stand against silence in the face of dictatorship. Here, there, everywhere." pic.twitter.com/C6n4d2w3gE
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) October 28, 2024
Editorial board member David Hoffman is also resigning, I'm told. Hoffman accepted the Pulitzer last week for his series on "new technologies and the tactics authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent in the digital age, and how they can be fought." https://t.co/7RELdYFKbN
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 28, 2024
NEW: A member of the Washington Post’s editorial board, Molly Roberts, tells me she has resigned
— Katie Robertson (@katie_robertson) October 28, 2024
"Donald Trump is not yet a dictator. But the quieter we are, the closer he comes — because dictators don't have to order the press to publish cooperatively if it wishes to go on publishing at all. The press knows, and it censors itself." https://t.co/QekvgiJLRa
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 28, 2024
Our current owner has emblazoned “Democracy Dies in Darkness” on the front page of every edition of The Washington Post. With this decision, those words now stand as an indictment of ourselves. https://t.co/g4aS43cXvG
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) October 26, 2024
Sad! 