Joby Warrick’s Washington Post resignation is John Kiriakou’s account of a friend and multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist at the Washington Post leaving the paper because, in Kiriakou’s telling, investigative journalism there was dead. Kiriakou describes Warrick as on the level of Woodward and Bernstein, and says he resigned two weeks before the interview.[1]
Kiriakou attributes the decline to ownership under Jeff Bezos, saying 80% of Washington Post employees have been let go since Bezos bought the paper — a newspaper, he notes, that once brought down a president through the Watergate investigation. He says real investigative journalism has instead migrated to outlets such as ProPublica, the Brennan Center, Drop Site News, and The Grayzone.[2]