Opinion | The Slow-Motion Self-Demolition of Washington Post Publisher Fred Ryan – POLITICO

The First Law of Meetings states that a boss should never convene a meeting, especially an employee meeting, unless he can safely control its substance and outcome.

Washington Post Publisher Frederick J. Ryan Jr. botched this simple dictate on Wednesday at an all-employee town hall. Ryan surprised the staff by disclosing that layoffs beyond the November dismissal of the entire Washington Post Magazine staff and the paper s dance critic were in the cards for early 2023. A cascade of stinging questions fell like hail on Ryan s comments, prompting his whimpering pushback that he wasn t about to turn the town hall into a grievance session and a retreat from his own meeting, as this video documents.

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When bad things happen to nasty institutions.