More chaos at The Washington Post as the publisher’s ethics are questioned

Will Lewis, publisher of The Washington Post, is not having a good week.

And you can’t help but wonder what his long-term future is at a job he has held for only a few months.

Lewis was already in the middle of chaos when the week began. Post executive editor Sally Buzbee resigned abruptly over the weekend as Lewis announced a major shakeup in how the newsroom would operate going forward.

Post staff and media observers immediately noted that Lewis’ plan in the wake of Buzbee’s resignation severely lacked diversity, with three white males, including two of his former colleagues, eventually being in charge of the Post’s news operation. Staff were not happy about that, as well as losing a popular and well-respected editor in Buzbee

All of that was a mess. Then it got worse for Lewis.

On Wednesday, The New York Times’ Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson dropped a story that brought Lewis’ journalism ethics into question.