Following the decision not to back either of the presidential candidates, resignations from “Washington Post” begin

Michele Norris, a columnist in The Washington Post, has resigned, making him the latest outgoing employee because of the newspaper's decision not to support Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

Norris shared the news in an X post on Sunday. The Washington Post's decision not to allow the support that was written and adopted in elections where fundamental democratic principles are jeopardised was a terrible mistake and an insult to the newspaper's old standard for regular support of candidates since 1976”, she wrote.

The Washington Post said on Friday it would not back any of the US presidential candidates, angering some of the editorial staff, including editor Robert Kagan, who also resigned Friday.

Kagan called the verdict an early <x0-capitalization” against Donald Trump.
The publisher and CEO, Will Lewis, wrote in a column on Friday that the decision was made to allow readers of the post of “set themselves to” for whom to vote in the presidential election.

Otherwise, the newspaper published a separate article Friday reporting that its owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, eventually called for such a decision.