Washington Post Staffers Gossip About a New Editor

Business Insider: As Washington Post staffers anticipate editor Marty Baron’s retirement this year, alum Kevin Merida is back on some people’s minds as they view him as a leading candidate to take the top job and become the newspaper’s first Black editor. The next editor of the Post will inherit a company at a journalistic and financial high point. The Post had an internal reckoning on race this summer, which the next editor will have to address.