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# Washington Post columnist exits writing “I must leave”
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/washington-post-columnist-exits-writing-i-must-leave/
- Published: 2025-03-11T01:25:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-12T21:38:51.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: People, Media, #wp-top-center-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:55

**Ruth Marcus a columnist who has worked at The Washington Post for four decades,** resigned after The Post’s management decided not to run her commentary critical of owner **Jeff Bezos**’ new editorial policy, reports TVNewsCheck.

Marcus, who has worked at the newspaper since 1984, wrote that “it breaks my heart to conclude that I must leave.” Her resignation letter was first reported by The New York Times.

Her exit, states TVNewsCheck, is fallout from the billionaire owner’s directive that The Post narrow the topics covered by its opinion section to personal liberties and the free market. The newspaper’s opinions editor, **David Shipley**, resigned because of the shift, announced two weeks ago.

Marcus said that the Post’s publisher, **Will Lewis**, declined to publish her column, which she said was “respectfully dissenting” from Bezos’ edict. It was the first time in nearly 20 years of writing columns that she’s had one killed, she said.

The decision “underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select the topics they wish to address and say what they think has been dangerously eroded,” she wrote.

Marcus joined The Washington Post in 1986, covering campaign finance, the Justice Department, the Supreme Court and the White House as a reporter. She served as deputy national editor from 1999 through 2002 before joining the editorial board in 2003\. Marcus was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2007\. She is the author of “Supreme Ambition,” which documents Republicans’ thirty-year effort to gain a conservative majority in the Supreme Court. She is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.

More [here](https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/washington-post-columnist-quits-after-her-opinion-piece-criticizing-owner-jeff-bezos-is-rejected/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).