MSN - A longtime Washington Post news columnist said he quit the paper after his editors spiked a column for being too opinionated, a move he said was “a death blow” to his job.
Joe Davidson published his final edition of the paper’s long-running “Federal Insider” column last month, where he revealed he would be leaving the paper “because of a policy restricting the level of opinion and commentary in news section articles.” The 75-year-old columnist joined the paper in 2005, and has written the column since 2008.
Davidson became the latest name to exit the Post since Bezos’ announcement, joining a coterie of news and opinion writers to leave in protest. Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist Eugene Robinson left the paper in April and said Bezos’ move “spurred me to decide that it’s time for my next chapter.”
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