The
Washington Post
has named Frederick J. Ryan Jr., a former Regan administration official and a co-founder of Politico.com, as publisher. Ryan replaces Katharine Weymouth, great-granddaughter of Eugene Meyer, who bought the
Post
at a bankruptcy auction in 1933. The move ends eight decades of family leadership at the newspaper,
a
Post
report noted.
Weymouth's family sold the
Post
to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos in August.
Ryan will begin his duties on October 1 and Weymouth will remain on the company payroll as an adviser through the end of the year, the
Post
article said. Bezos's announcement of Ryan's appointment “did not give reasons for the change or its timing, and Bezos declined to comment, the article said. (Source:
Washington Post
, September 2, 2014.)
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