Will Lewis was appointed publisher and CEO of The Washington Post in November last year is facing calls to sack his publisher, a British ex-newspaper executive and adviser to Boris Johnson, after it was claimed he attempted to “kill” a story about his involvement in a phone-hacking scandal.
Lewis’s appointment as chief executive and publisher followed the hiring of former BBC director-general Mark Thompson as chairman and chief executive of CNN last year.newsroom with emotive talk on its “extremely exciting” future: “I can smell it. I can feel it. I know it.”
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