Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart has accepted a buyout from the paper, becoming the latest high-profile departure amid sweeping editorial changes implemented under owner Jeff Bezos.
Capehart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his outspoken criticism of President Trump, had been with the Post since 2007. His exit was first reported by Axios on Monday.
Capehart’s final column for the Post, published in May, featured a conversation with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on “countering” the president.
Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart has reportedly accepted a buyout from the paper, becoming the latest high-profile departure amid sweeping editorial changes. Getty Images for MVAAFF
That same month, Capehart resigned from the newspaper’s editorial board over a dispute with a white colleague about a piece that anazlyed Georgia’s voting laws and their alleged racial implications.
Capehart had previously referred to Trump as “a cancer on the presidency and American society” and compared