WaPo CEO Will Lewis: Ask Me Anything Except About That Phone Hack Cover-Up

An email landed in Washington Post staffers’ inboxes on Thursday from CEO Will Lewis, encouraging them to sign up for a chance to grill him—not on allegations he tried to block coverage of his foreign cover-up scandal, but on his new plans for a divvied-up newsroom.

“Next week, I will be holding Say It sessions regarding the Build It phase of our plan,” the email read.

But six current and former Post staffers fumed to The Daily Beast that Lewis’ monthslong refusal to say anything on his alleged involvement in covering up a U.K. phone-hacking scandal—started by Rupert Murdoch journalists hacking Prince Harry’s cell—couldn’t last much longer in a newsroom that touts how “democracy dies in darkness.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.