Former Washington Post Ombudsman On Woodward: "I Don't Think He Is Acknowledging The Degree To Which This Poses A Problem For The Post"...

Editor & Publisher Joe Strupp November 23, 2005 at 10:34 AM

Former Washington Post Ombudsman Geneva Overholser criticized her former newspaper, saying it should either sever its ties with Bob Woodward or require the legendary Watergate scribe to work solely for the paper, not pen his best-selling books on the side.

"It isn't an arrangement that can really work at the Post," said Overholser, who served as ombudsman from 1995 to 1998 and later as a Post columnist for three years. "If I were editor, I would say, 'Bob, you've got to pick.'"

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