WaPo CEO’s Apology Tour Was an Answer-Free Snoozefest

Washington Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis attempted to play clean-up this week in private, conciliatory meetings with staffers, ultimately offering few answers for them after lashing out and playing defense last week.

Multiple staffers told The Daily Beast that, in private Q&A sessions where staffers peppered him with questions about the paper’s future, Lewis directly expressed regret for his outbursts over multiple reports indicating he tried to kill stories on his alleged role in covering up the U.K. tabloid phone-hacking scandal.

He told staffers he could have been a better communicator, extending the quasi-apology he released late Friday evening.

Read more at The Daily Beast.