Jonathan Capehart reportedly leaves Washington Submit after almost 20 years

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Washington Submit columnist Jonathan Capehart has reportedly accepted a buyout and is leaving the Jeff Bezos -owned paper after almost 20 years.

Capehart, who received a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing with the New York Day by day Information in 1999, has served as an editorial author for the Washington Submit for over 18 years. He was a member of the editorial board till 2022, when he left the board over a dispute about an editorial on Georgia’s voting legal guidelines. He's leaving the paper after accepting a buyout, Axios reported Monday.

The columnist, who additionally hosts the MSNBC Present "Weekends with Jonathan Capehart" and offers commentary on the PBS "NewsHour," is the most recent high-profile Washington Submit editorial contributor to exit the paper.

A glut of writers -- Ann Telnaes, David Shipley, Ruth Marcus, Eugene Robinson and, simply earlier this month, Joe Davidson – all departed the beltway paper as considerations mount over the Washington Submit’s editorial slant taking a rightward shift following President Trump’s re-election.

MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart has accepted a buyout from the Washington Submit. (MSNBC)

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Following Trump’s re-election, Washington Submit proprietor and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos introduced that the editorial part of the paper would be changing course, prompting then-opinion editor David Shipley to go away.

"We're going to be writing day by day in help and protection of two pillars: private liberties and free markets. We’ll cowl different subjects too in fact, however viewpoints opposing these pillars can be left to be printed by others," Bezos posted on X in Feb 2025 .

Bezos’ adjustments led to a pointy backlash in his newsroom, with staffers telling Fox Information Digital earlier this month that morale has collapsed on the paper. Washington Submit Government Editor Matt Murray introduced a buyout program for staffers searching for to go away the paper in Could.

"Persons are shellshocked and maintaining their heads down," one Submit staffer instructed Fox News Digital .

Washington Submit writer and CEO Will Lewis despatched a memo to workers encouraging those that took concern with the paper’s new editorial course to take the buyouts.

The Washington Submit has seen an exodus of editorial workers as of late. (Kevin Carter/Getty Photos)

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"I perceive and respect, nevertheless, that our chosen path shouldn't be for everybody, that’s precisely why we launched the voluntary separation program. As we proceed on this new course, I need to ask those that don't really feel aligned with the firm’s plan to replicate on that," Lewis wrote within the memo.

Davidson, a put up contributor who authored the Submit's "Federal Insider" column for 17 years, introduced he was quitting the paper in a Fb put up titled "Quitting The Washington Submit -- or did it stop me?" He mentioned that he determined to exit the paper after having a column rejected for being "too opinionated."

Capehart’s relationship with the Washington Submit has been more and more acrimonious. In his current memoir, "But Right here I Am: Classes from a Black Man's Seek for Dwelling," the previous columnist trashed many of his colleagues at The Submit’s editorial board. He accused Washington Submit editorial board member Karen Tumulty of "robbing me of my humanity" in a disagreement over language utilized in an op-ed.

Jeff Bezos introduced that the Washington Submit editorial web page would pursue a brand new political course. (Photograph by STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP by way of Getty Photos)

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The previous Washington Submit contributor has a historical past of vicious anti-Trump criticism. At one level, he mentioned that MAGA was far more "worrisome" for the nation than any overseas risk America may face in a 2021 phase on PBS NewsHour.