‘Finally Learning’: Trump White House Praises Washington Post For ‘Overhauling’ Its Newsroom

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took a moment to “commend” The Washington Post over recent editorial and newsroom changes that have sparked backlash against the outlet.

At a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Leavitt declared that The Washington Post and other “mainstream media” outlets are “finally learning that having disdain for more than half of the country who supports this president does not help you sell newspapers.”

Leavitt said:

I would like to commend The Washington Post who I believe is in the room today. According to a new report from Axios, The Washington Post is overhauling their newsroom structure. It appears that the mainstream media, including The Post, is finally learning that having disdain for more than half of the country who supports this president does not help you sell newspapers. It’s not a very good business model. And that is why we have people in our new media seat.”

Axios obtained a staff memo from executive editor Matt Murray at The Post laying out major newsroom structure changes meant as part of the paper’s larger effort to reach a wider audience and move away from perceptions of being too far left.

Jeff Bezos, who owns The Post, made waves last month when he announced drastic changes to The Post and the departure of the paper’s opinion section editor David Shipley after Bezos told him his section would need to prioritize personal liberties and free markets as topics. Despite the editorial changes, The Post’s opinion section has remained critical of President Donald Trump and close ally Elon Musk.

Bezos saw a backlash ahead of the 2024 election after stopping his paper from making an official endorsement in the presidential race.

This week, Post opinion editor and columnist Ruth Marcus resigned from the paper after a column critical of Bezos was scrapped. Marty Baron, who led The Post before leaving in 2021, previously told Mediaite that Bezos’s new mandates are fueled by his other business interests during Trump’s second term.

“He has prioritized those commercial interests over The Post, and he is betraying The Post’s longstanding principles to do so,” Baron said.

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