Twitter / Harvard-educated journalist noted that the reporters who “issued synchronized tweets … are all white” and are “among the highest-paid employees in the newsroom, making double and even triple what some other National desk reporters are making, particularly journalists of color.” AP Sonmez took to Twitter again Thursday to blast Post reporters who sent out tweets praising the Jeff Bezos-owned paper as a “collegial” workplace. On Tuesday, Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee warned reporters to maintain a “collegial” workplace and refrain from attacking colleagues on Twitter.īut Sonmez took to the social media platform again Thursday to blast Post reporters who sent out tweets praising the Jeff Bezos-owned paper as a “collegial” workplace and “downplaying the Post’s workplace issues.” Felicia Sonmez spent the last week sharply criticizing her colleagues and the paper’s leadership, according to multiple reports. Weigel subsequently apologized and was suspended without pay for a month. Sonmez, who has been at the paper for a decade, made headlines last Friday when she blasted fellow political reporter Dave Weigel for retweeting a sexist joke. Kris Coratti Kelly, The Washington Post’s chief communications officer, told The New York Post: “We do not discuss personnel matters.” Her firing was reported by CNN, the Daily Beast and New York Times reporter Katie Robinson Sonmez did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Washington Post fired political reporter Felicia Sonmez on Thursday after she spent the last week sharply criticizing her colleagues and the paper’s leadership, according to multiple reports. Washington Post deletes tweet accusing Merrick Garland of ‘politicizing DOJ’ Trump-deranged media races again to tarnish ex-prez via unnamed sources Media is back to anonymous, one-source stories on Trump that we can’t trust anymore
CBS’s Norah O’Donnell just made our point about Trump-deranged media’s use of unnamed sources to smear ex-prez