The flood of high-profile editorial talent fleeing the Washington Post as the storied newspaper revamps its opinion section to focus exclusively on “personal liberties and free markets” continued to grow this week as Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Jonathan Capehart decided to take a buyout.
Capehart’s departure comes just days after longtime Post reporter and writer Philip Bump announced that he had also accepted a buyout and had written his last column, which followed the paper’s beleaguered CEO Will Lewis’ ultimatum to staffers to leave if they “do not feel aligned” with the company’s new direction.
As first reported by Axios’ Sara Fischer Monday morning, Capehart – who was a member of the Post’s editorial board until 2023 – ended his 18-year run with the paper this week after taking a buyout through the company’s recently implemented voluntary separation program.
Capehart, meanwhile, will continue to co-host MSNBC’s The Weekend, and serve as a political analyst for PBS.
The Washington Post and Capehart did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The paper has been experiencing an exodus of reporters, columnists and editors since late last year when the Post’s owner Jeff Bezos blocked the editorial board’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. The meddling from the Amazon founder, who has increasingly cozied up to Trump over the past year, resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of subscribers and the resignations of several editorial board members.
That internal turmoil, which had already featured the paper’s journalists unsuccessfully begging Bezos to visit the newsroom and restore the “trust that has been lost” under his watch, only grew worse in February when the mega-billionaire instituted a new mandate for the Post’s opinion pages that resulted in the section’s top editor resigning.
“We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos stated in a memo to staff. “We’ll cover other topics too, of course, but viewpoints…
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