Charles Lane, a longtime Washington Post columnist and editor, is leaving the newspaper to join independent news website The Free Press (FP), the FP’s editor, Bari Weiss, announced Friday.
Lane’s departure follows recent editorial staff reshuffling at the Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, marking another legacy press defector who found safe harbor in the growing independent media sphere.
“For much of the last decade he contributed weekly columns marked by their independence, intellectual integrity, and range. Those are exactly the qualities we aspire to at The Free Press—and why we know Chuck is going to be such a perfect fit,” Weiss wrote on Twitter.
I’m so delighted to announce that Charles Lane will be joining the Free Press as deputy editor on January 6.
Chuck comes to us from the Washington Post where he served in a variety of positions on both the news and editorial…
