The British journalist Robert Winnett, who was going to be the new director of the newspaper The Washington Post, will not occupy that position, said this Friday the prestigious media, which a few days ago published an article in which he was accused of lack of ethics.
The newspaper, which has been mired in a major restructuring crisis for months, assured that Winnett will remain in his current position at the Daily Telegraph in London, according to an internal message that the British platform sent to its workers.
“I am pleased to report that Rob Winnett has decided to stay with us,” wrote Telegraph editor Chris Evans. “As everyone knows, he is a talented guy and his loss is our gain,” the text adds.
Last Monday, The Washington Post accused Winnett of lacking ethics in an article for allegedly using information stolen when he worked in the editorial office of the British media outlet The Sunday Times in the 2000s.
The newspaper, which has been mired in a major restructuring crisis for months, assured that Winnett will remain in his current position at the Daily Telegraph in London, according to an internal message that the British platform sent to its workers.
“I am pleased to report that Rob Winnett has decided to stay with us,” wrote Telegraph editor Chris Evans. “As everyone knows, he is a talented guy and his loss is our gain,” the text adds.
Last Monday, The Washington Post accused Winnett of lacking ethics in an article for allegedly using information stolen when he worked in the editorial office of the British media outlet The Sunday Times in the 2000s.
Winnett, who was going to become editor of The Washington Post in the fall, would have used the material that the “confessed thief” John Ford “stole to order,” according to the article.
The Washington Post's nearly three-thousand-word story is based largely on a 2018 Guardian interview with Ford, in which he detailed an illegitimate "modus operandi" to get exclusive stories to Winnett about the Leeds team's acquisition. United, Tony Blair's finances or the customer list for a new Mercedes-Benz model.
Likewise, The Washington Post maintains that Winnett would have refused to answer the questions of his future editors for the preparation of this news.
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has been in crisis since the appointment last year of a new chief executive, Will Lewis.
The chaos at the newspaper in the United States capital increased when Sally Buzbee, who three years ago became the first woman to run the outlet, abruptly resigned a month ago and it was announced that she would be immediately replaced by Matt Murray, former editor. in chief of The Wall Street Journal, until the presidential elections next November.