Media Moves

Capehart departs WaPo’s editorial board amid leadership discontent

March 3, 2023

Posted by Mariam Ahmed

Jonathan Capehart

Jonathan Capehart has quit The Washington Post’s editorial board, leaving the paper with an all-white editorial board. His departure comes following a dispute over an editorial about 2024 politics.

However, Capehart still serves as a columnist, associate editor and podcaster at the Post.

Axios reports:

“Capehart left the board at a time when the Post — based in a city where nearly half the population is Black — is swirling in internal discontent over the paper’s leadership.

“By comparison, the New York Times’ 14-person editorial board has five people of color.”

Read more here.

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