After buying The Washington Post in 2013, Jeffrey P. Bezos visited the newsroom and answered questions from employees in a town-hall-style meeting. Bezos, the founder of Amazon and certified tech visionary, acknowledged The Post’s glorious history but said “the death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past.” “You have to figure out: How can we make the new thing?” […]

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