Candidates to Run Washington Post Withdraw After Being Asked How They’d Use AI to Run the Newspaper
That pivot to AI isn’t working out too well, huh? Pivotal Moment After its controversial pivot to AI earlier this year, the Washington Post‘s CEO is now turning off editorial candidates by asking them how they would use the technology to run the newspaper. As Axios reports based on insider sources, two candidates for an executive editor position that would run the paper withdrew themselves from consideration after its publisher and CEO Will Lewis, who was selected by owner Jeff Bezos to “save” the paper — and who issued the AI edict soon into his tenure — had them lay out their own strategies for using the tech. Those candidates — Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times executive Cliff Levy and Anne Kornblut of Meta, who used to be a WaPo editor — were apparently not impressed by Lewis’ ask. According to Axios‘ sources, whose names were not published, Levy withdrew his candidacy last week, and Kornblut did so in September. Some candidates for the position were also asked to pen six-page memos about their vision for WaPo, including how they would incorporate AI …