The Washington Post’s Patrick Pexton wrote Friday that it’s possible he will be the paper’s last ombudsman, as the Post moves to cut costs and Pexton’s two-year term comes to an end. Officially, Pexton, wrote no decision has been made yet.
“But I think the tea leaves are clear,” he added. “For cost-cutting reasons, for modern media-technology reasons and because The Post, like other news organizations, is financially weaker and hence even more sensitive to criticism, my bet is that this position will disappear.”
