Journalist Karen Attiah will not return to Washington Post despite winning fight that she was unjustly fired

Karen Attiah will not return to her job as a Washington Post opinion columnist even after an arbitrator ruled she was unjustly fired for statements following the killing of Charlie Kirk, reports The Hill.

According to The Hill, Attiah, who worked at the Post for 11 years as an editor and opinion writer, announced she would not return "due to a lack of “guaranteed freedom and institutional support” within the Post newsroom. Attiah sued for wrongful termination after she was fired for writing that America “accepts and worships gun violence” and posted a quote from Kirk in which he said a number of prominent Black women didn’t have the “brain processing power” to be taken seriously."

“I have decided not to return to what The Washington Post has become. I have accepted a settlement with the Post and will move forward with my life and career,” Attiah wrote in a post to Substack. “As excruciating as this battle has been, it was one worth fighting.”

The arbitrator ruled in August that the Post did not have “good and sufficient” cause for Attiah’s termination and that they violated the organization’s collective bargaining agreement with the Post’s union.