WaPo CEO Will Lewis Tries to Apologize to Staff in Late-Day Memo

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis apologized to staffers in a newsroom memo late Friday, acknowledging he needed to be more transparent with his staff after back-to-back reports showed he tried to kill stories related to his alleged role in covering up a U.K. phone-hacking scandal.

“Time for some humility from me,” Lewis wrote to staffers in a memo obtained by The Daily Beast. “I need to improve how well I listen and how well I communicate so that we all agree more clearly where urgent improvements are needed and why.”

Lewis did not explicitly address the legal claims of his alleged role in covering up the Murdoch empire’s phone-hacking, but he noted how “trust has been lost because of scars from the past and the back-and-forth from this week.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.