Capehart departs WaPo’s editorial board amid leadership discontent

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.”

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